Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:12:31 -0700 From: Michael VanLoon <MichaelV@EDIFECS.COM> To: "'Chris Faulhaber'" <jedgar@fxp.org> Cc: "'hackers@freebsd.org'" <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Finding MAC address of interface - programming question Message-ID: <36F7B20351634E4FBFFE6C6A216B30D54C80@ecx1.edifecs.com>
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> From: Chris Faulhaber [mailto:jedgar@fxp.org] > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 3:56 PM > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 03:56:40PM -0700, Michael VanLoon wrote: > > Please point me to a more appropriate forum if there is > one. I'm kinda out > > of my depth on this question. Pseudo code is fine. :-) > > > > What I'm looking for is how to enumerate the network > interfaces and get the > > Ethernet MAC address of one programmatically. Can anyone > point me in the > > right direction? > > > > /usr/src/sbin/ifconfig Thanks, I've already been looking at that. :-) The problem is, ifconfig does a lot of other stuff, and it's very poorly documented. I was hoping someone could give me some hints to speed my research. Such as recommended places to look in the code, ioctl's used and/or sysctl's called. I'm happy to do most of the work myself, I'm just asking for some hints. :-) Much appreciated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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