In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112111355310.3218-100000@havoc.ittc.ku.edu> you wrote: > I should be able to get the link-layer address of an interface by > specifying the interface name ie. eth0, eth1 etc. > (mac address for ethernet) Do it like ifconfig is doing it: lib/interface.c strcpy(ifr.ifr_name, ifname); if (ioctl(skfd, SIOCGIFHWADDR, &ifr) < 0) memset(ife->hwaddr, 0, 32); else memcpy(ife->hwaddr, ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data, 8); Greetings Bernd - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
