On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > 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); Thanks everybody for the solution. Now to hack some code! ciao, Amit -- The statement below is true. The statement above is false. ^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^ Amit Kucheria EECS Grad. Research Assistant 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 More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
