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Subject: RE: programatically getting MAC addr for interface?
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 01:57:19 -0600
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> Hi!
> 
> Im porting an application to FreeBSD and it currently uses various
> sockio calls to get the MAC address of a network interface.  I cant
> seem to find an analogous call. 
> 
> Can anyone point me to an example c-program to get the mac addr for
> interfaces?

The getifaddrs() function should give you what your looking for...

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