Andy Angrick wrote:
> Does anyone know of a more elegant way to retrieve the IP address and MAC
> address of a network adapter other than parsing the output from ifconfig. Is
> there a proc file where you can get this info or some other place?
>
> -Andy
>
"strace ifconfig" Shows that ifconfig uses ioctl on a socket to get the
information you want.
"man ioctl_list" list some ioctl calls and points you to where you can find
them in the source.
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