Re: how to find out regdomain/country of wifi network
On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 12:00:36PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> On 5/15/23 07:03, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 12:10:13AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > > I read somewhere that the recent tweaks (improvements?) to
> > > ifconfig's output were breaking scripts, which is hardly surprising.
> >
> > I can personally confirm this as true. Some of the machines at work
> > run a proprietary software product that uses a license key, tied to
> > the machine's ethernet interface's MAC address. The vendor's script
> > runs ifconfig and tries to parse the output to get the MAC address.
> > This script fails on the recent versions of net-tools.
> >
> > .
> One might be able to fix that with hexedit or a clone, by changing the
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Thanks, but I don't require any assistance with this. I simply told
the vendor what the correct IP address and MAC address are. (They're
a small company, and we have direct contact with them.)
I was simply confirming that yes, the changes to net-tools did in fact
break some real-world scripts.
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