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From: grefen@convex.com (Stefan Grefen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: finding out about enetaddr
Date: 2 Sep 1994 06:26:10 -0500
Organization: Engineering, Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx USA
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Message-ID: <34724i$9in@hydra.convex.com>
References: <346pan$84h@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
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In article <346pan$84h@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>,
Christoph Kukulies <kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
[...]
>
>Does anyone have an idea how to niceley extract the ethernet address
>of a given interface out of the kernel? 

[...]

Getting the ethernet-addr works through ioctl's . For a good reference
how to do it look at src/usr.sbin/pppd/sys-bsd.c:get_ether_addr().

Stefan


>
>--
>--Chris  Christoph P. U. Kukulies    kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de	 
>FreeBSD 1.1.0(Current) (GILSYSCONS) #12: Fri Jun  3 13:36:12 MET DST 1994


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Stefan Grefen                          Convex Computer GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany
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