Hi all,
I need a function in the ARP/ethernet code which gives me the mac address
of a machine given its IP address. Is there any such function in the
kernel ?
The reason i need the function is because my device is not accessing the
neighbour tables directly. I tried tracing the 'ioctl' suggestion below,
but it wont work for me.
Regards,
Amit
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Sarada Seshadri wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> A user space program could get this info by an `ioctl (SIOCGIFHWADDR).' If
> you look at the corresponding kernel code you could find a clue.
>
> -Sarada
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