you can get the list of addresses the system "knows" from /proc/net/arp. If you do not find it then ping the machine which will add an entry to the arp table and then re-read /proc/net/arp. This is kind of cleaner because even if the method names change your code need not change.. hth, A > Hi all, > > Is there a function in the kernel which will return the mac address when > passed an IP address of a ethernet device ? > > I didnt understand what arp_bind_neighbour does. > > Regards, > Amit > -- > ^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^ > Amit Kucheria > EECS Grad. Research Assistant > Team Niehaus || Room # 245E > University of Kansas @ Lawrence > (R)+1-(785)-830 8521 ||| (O)+1-(785)-864 7774 > ____________________________________________________ > > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
