Hi,

Would this give you what you need...

ovtopodump -l "hostname"|grep PHYSICAL|awk {'print $3'}


Regs

Colin M.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com [mailto:owner-nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT 
com]
On Behalf Of Jeff Fitzwater
Sent: 18 May 2006 21:34
To: netview-list
Subject: [nv-l] Host linng address 


    Does anybody know how I can extract just the LINK address of a host 
IP from the NV database, without any other  info or header text?   I 
need just the mac address of a node for a test I need to run but do not 
want to query the host itself.  

So far the simplest is using the command ovtopodump -L "hostname" but it

also returns other info and column names. 


Thanks for any help.

Jeff Fitzwater
OIT Network Systems
Princeton Univesity

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