Mac address of etherchannel

[KPKIND]

Hi Guys,

I have an etherchannel configured on my system with two cards in to it. i.e. ent4 is the etherchannel and it constitutes ent0 and ent3. When I see the stats of ent4 using netstat -v cmd it says ent0 is down and currently ent3 is up (This is supposed to be the backup adapter).

I am trying to find out the MAC address of each of the individual adapters to nail down the problem. But when I see the data the MAC address of ent4,ent0 and ent3 are the same

How do I know the MAC address of individual NIC's

TIA
Kumar

 

[Mag0007]

try lscfg -vl <adapter name>

 

[KPKIND]

Thanks Mag,

I have used the cmd netstat -ia which has given me two MAC addresses. I understand that the MAC address of the pseudo etherchannel will be the MAC address of the first adapter that was added to etherchannel while configuring it. So I assume the second MAC address shown in netstat -ia is the MAC add of the second adapter. Pl correct me if I am wrong.

As told by you I have also used lscfg -vl which returned something called Network address( I suppose this is the MAC) 000256CF3133. But if I have to pass it on to the network guys, which format should I pass

TIA
Kumar

 

[p5wizard]

Yes lscfg -v calls MAC address a "Network Address"

000256CF3133

==>

00:02:56:CF:31:33

or

0:2:56:cf:31:33

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[KPKIND]

Thanks both of you. It really worked well.