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From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
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Subject: Re: Getting MAC address?
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On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Ivan Voras wrote:

IV> How to get the MAC address for an (ethernet) interface? The linux code
IV> does this:
IV> 	retval = ioctl(thisint->sockInt, SIOCGIFHWADDR, &ifr);
IV>
IV> After some searching, I found SIOCSIFLLADDR ioctl, but it appears there
IV> isn't a "GET" counterpart.
IV>
IV> (I've got interface name & index available...)

Take a look at ifconfig(8) source.

getifaddrs(3), case when sa_family == AF_LINK

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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