Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 13:37:08 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux emulation, gethostid() Message-ID: <199610232037.NAA10355@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199610230354.NAA23453@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Oct 23, 96 01:24:19 pm
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> gethostid() under linux is implemeted using the SIOCGIFHWADDR ioctl > to get a network hardware address. We don't support this yet. > > Netstat gets the hardware address by grubbing around in the kernel > (what a frightening piece of code that is to read 8( ), but I also > recall someone posting wrt. getting mathematica to run with a "more > correct" method. > > Do we want an ioctl to get the hardware address? If not, any > suggestions on a _tidy_ way to get it? Check the list archives. The Mathematica "correct method" included patches to implement the interface without the kernel grubbing. I am suprised that the patches were not integrated. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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