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From: generous@dev.dtic.dla.mil (Curtis Generous)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Getting the Ethernet Address?
Keywords: network ethernet interface
Message-ID: <3607@dev.dtic.dla.mil>
Date: 9 Feb 90 11:33:30 GMT
References: <12763@vicorp.UUCP>
Organization: Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), Alexandria VA
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patrick@vicorp.UUCP (Patrick Johnstone) writes:

|| ... but I'm interested in getting the raw Ethernet
||address (the one with format %x:%x:%x:%x:%x:%x).  I'm working on
||Sun's (all types) but am wondering if the procedure is the same on
||all (BSD) Unix systems.
||Patrick Johnstone
||	patrick@vicorp.uu.net
||	...!vicorp!patrick

Try looking at the SIOCGARP ioctl request if your machine supports it.

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