Michael VanLoon wrote:
>
> > From: Chris Faulhaber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 3:56 PM
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 03:56:40PM -0700, Michael VanLoon wrote:
> > > Please point me to a more appropriate forum if there is
> > one. I'm kinda out
> > > of my depth on this question. Pseudo code is fine. :-)
> > >
> > > What I'm looking for is how to enumerate the network
> > interfaces and get the
> > > Ethernet MAC address of one programmatically. Can anyone
> > point me in the
> > > right direction?
> > >
> >
> > /usr/src/sbin/ifconfig
>
> Thanks, I've already been looking at that. :-)
>
> The problem is, ifconfig does a lot of other stuff, and it's very poorly
> documented.
>
> I was hoping someone could give me some hints to speed my research. Such as
> recommended places to look in the code, ioctl's used and/or sysctl's called.
>
> I'm happy to do most of the work myself, I'm just asking for some hints. :-)
> Much appreciated.
Take a look at /usr/src/release/picobsd/tinyware/ns. I went through the
same hoops some time ago... :-)
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Andrzej
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