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
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 15:54, Joerg Schilling wrote:
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
Joerg Schilling writes:
By tradition, you need to be root on UNIX in order to get permission to
see the MAC address.
I'd call that more of a DLPI implementation quirk than a tradition.
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James Carlson, KISS Network[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive
Shao Wu writes:
On the other hand, the ioctl is no more ugly than fishing the MAC
from ARP.
Right. Which you can already do with the existing ioctls. So, it's
my suspicion that those asking for the feature either don't realize
the limitations it'll have or don't care. I don't actually know
