Getting the Ethernet Address?

Curtis Generous generous at dev.dtic.dla.mil
Fri Feb 9 22:33:30 AEST 1990


patrick at vicorp.UUCP (Patrick Johnstone) writes:

|| ... but I'm interested in getting the raw Ethernet
||address (the one with format %x:%x:%x:%x:%x:%x).  I'm working on
||Sun's (all types) but am wondering if the procedure is the same on
||all (BSD) Unix systems.
||Patrick Johnstone
||	patrick at vicorp.uu.net
||	...!vicorp!patrick

Try looking at the SIOCGARP ioctl request if your machine supports it.

--curtis
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