Shao Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On the other hand, the ioctl is no more ugly than fishing the MAC from ARP.
> The ablilty to be able to retrieve MAC from down interfaces is nice and
> essential for some applications. But I suspect it's more commen for poeple to
> look for up interfaces instead.
>
> Please make the IOCTL work for non-root users. Linux, for example allows
> retrieving MAC without being root.
By tradition, you need to be root on UNIX in order to get permission to
see the MAC address.
Jörg
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