Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 13:02:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: "Kevin D. Wooten" <kevin@wooten.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Retrieving interface MAC address Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020618130127.30505C-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <3D0F66EA.1000003@wooten.com>
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I tend to retrieve address information about interfaces using getifaddrs(), which will (among other things) retrieve the link layer addresses of an interface. It might be overkill for your application, however. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Kevin D. Wooten wrote: > How can I go about retrieving the MAC address for an interface? Since > SIOCGHWADDR doesn't seem to be implemented. Can anyone help?? > > Thanks, > Kevin Wooten > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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