[plug] Ethernet Addresses

[Mike Holland]

On Thu, 4 May 2000, Christian wrote:

> Does anyone know how to find out the ethernet (MAC) address of a given
> interface?  After searching the manual I can't find any system calls

The arp(8) and ifconfig(8) commands give the MAC ("hardware") address.
An strace(1) will show which system calls they use, but i cant see any
special system calls.
  You could read /proc/net/arp, or exec the 'arp' command for more
portability.

  Looking at the solaris man pages, I find arp(4p), which tells how to
use <net/if_arp.h> and socket/ioctl calls. Gross!
Linux seems to have the same header file, so I'll send the man page, but
gee its ugly.


Mike Holland  <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>
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