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From: Michael VanLoon <MichaelV@EDIFECS.COM>
To: "'Chris Faulhaber'" <jedgar@fxp.org>
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Subject: RE: Finding MAC address of interface - programming question
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:12:31 -0700
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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.

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