[Gllug] Reading MAC addresses

[Chris Ball]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 03:01:05PM +0100, Allen Wayne wrote:
> here is a stupid question...does anyone know of a method of reading a
> network card MAC address from code (i.e. C/C++)?

I'd do it using ioctl and SIOCGIFHWADDR. Did you want a cross-platform
method, or one specifically for linux?

~C. 

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