Re: Program to find the ethernet MAC address

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From: John Saunders
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 00:00

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John Saunders <johns@rd.scitec.com.au> wrote:
> Does anybody have a program that can be used to extract the ethernet
> hardware (MAC) address from the ethernet device?

I have found the answer by searching through the kernel sources and
header files. The answer lay in a struct ifreq from <linux/if.h> and
an ioctl() called SIOCGIFHWADDR in <linux/sockios.h>.

It seems this stuff is OS dependant as HPUX doesn't have these.

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