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Date:      Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:37:19 +0100
From:      Martin Stiemerling <Martin.Stiemerling@ccrle.nec.de>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Programmatically obtaining interface hardware addrs
Message-ID:  <3E4772CF.9020201@ccrle.nec.de>
References:  <1044760845.66333.35.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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See man getifaddrs:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getifaddrs&sektion=3&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.7-RELEASE

You can obtain l2 addresses with this system call.

Martin

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

>What's the best (or easiest) way to programmatically obtain interfaces'
>hardware addresses (that is, without forking ifconfig ;-))?  I'm looking
>at how ifconfig does it, and wondering if there's an easier way.  It
>seems Linux has a nice SIOCGIFHWADDR ioctl to do this.  Thanks.
>
>Joe
>
>  
>



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