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Date:      10 Feb 2003 11:42:17 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Martin Stiemerling <Martin.Stiemerling@ccrle.nec.de>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Programmatically obtaining interface hardware addrs
Message-ID:  <1044895337.58944.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <3E4772CF.9020201@ccrle.nec.de>
References:  <1044760845.66333.35.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <3E4772CF.9020201@ccrle.nec.de>

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On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 04:37, Martin Stiemerling wrote:
> See man getifaddrs:
>=20
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Dgetifaddrs&sektion=3D3&apropos=
=3D0&manpath=3DFreeBSD+4.7-RELEASE
>=20
> You can obtain l2 addresses with this system call.

Thanks, I had my head buried so deep in ioctls and sysctls, I didn't
consider anything else.

Joe

>=20
> Martin
>=20
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>=20
> >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
> >
> > =20
> >
>=20
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