esi - get or set the end system identifier (ESI)

       Werner Almesberger, EPFL ICA <Werner.Almesberger@epfl.ch>

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.

       esi - get or set the end system identifier (ESI)

-f     force overwriting an existing ESI.

       -V     print version number of esi on standard output and exit.

ilmid(8)

Linux                                            April 26, 2000                                           ESI(8)

esi [itf]
       esi [-f] esi [itf]
       esi-V