What is the way to read the /proc filesystem from the kernel ?
I cannot "ping" the machine since i am writing this code in the kernel. It
should just look for the mac address of an ethernet device and return it.
Regards,
Amit
On Fri, 25 May 2001, raghu arni wrote:
> 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
> > --
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