ESI
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: April 26, 2000
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NAME
esi - get or set the end system identifier (ESI)
SYNOPSIS
esi
[
itf]
esi
[
-f]
esi [
itf]
esi
-V
DESCRIPTION
esi
is used to show or set the end system identifier (ESI, a unique six-byte
number corresponding to the MAC address of LAN technologies like Ethernet)
of an ATM interface. If the interface number
itf is omitted, interface
0 is used by default. The
esi argument is a string of twelve hex digits.
Only the ESI stored in the kernel is accessed; esi does not change the
ESI stored on the NIC. If a non-zero ESI is already set on an interface, the
-f option has to be used to overwrite it.
Note that ESI changes are not automatically propagated throughout the system,
e.g. to ilmid. esi should therefore be used early during system
initialization.
OPTIONS
- -f
-
force overwriting an existing ESI.
- -V
-
print version number of esi on standard output and exit.
AUTHOR
Werner Almesberger, EPFL ICA <
Werner.Almesberger@epfl.ch>
SEE ALSO
ilmid(8)