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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!206.154.70.8!news.webspan.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!EU.net!sun4nl!server1.adam.ixe.net!news2.euro.net!xs4all!not-for-mail From: vincento@knoware.nl (Vincent Ossewaarde) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: etting ethernet address of networkadaptor. Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 19:34:12 GMT Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5lqad2$bgc$1@news2.xs4all.nl> References: <337C24FF.167E@inferno.phys.tue.nl> <5lhcm7$4ac@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: asd-isdn02-18.dial.xs4all.nl X-XS4ALL-Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 21:41:22 CEST X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.55 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41246 brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers) wrote: >In article <337C24FF.167E@inferno.phys.tue.nl>, > Gert van der Plas <gert@inferno.phys.tue.nl> writes: >> I would like to obtain the physical address of the network-adapter. >> Does anyone have some code to do this? I had some code for the DEC-Alpha >> but that did not work and I could not manage to patch it since I do not >> know enough about FreeBSD 2.2.1 to do this. Can some one please help? >Hmm, ifconfig does it. I'd suggest looking at the code >to figure it out. You'd better su to root and use the arp -a command... VIncent