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- I can't reproduce this.by lapcat
- ifconfig is deprecated in modern Linux. Is it not deprecated in BSD? Does Apple not provide the ip(8) command-line tools?
https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/stonking/man8/ip.8.html
No, it seems that iproute2 is Linux-first, or Linux-only: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iproute2
Sad!
- Interestingly, running `ifconfig` from a Zsh shell still does show MAC addressesby luckman212
- 27.0.1 did not fix it, and I reproduced it on 2 more Macs, one was literally factory reset, just installed a fresh macOS 27, installed Homebrew, installed Bash5, ran ifconfig .... bug reproducedby luckman212
- Who needs a physical MAC address when you can just have a spiritual connection to the iCloud?by asiliev20
- I filed a bashbug: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?68722by luckman212