Re: Re: MAC address

hi,

have you looked in the /proc/ 'directory' ?. all relevant network info 
should be there, listable in simple text format.

rene


Alberto Narduzzi wrote:
> Thanx indeed,
> 
> 
>>1) run ifconfig and capture and parse its output
> 
> 
> I already thought about this, but there's the language thing... and as i'm 
> "new" to Linux, can I be sure of ifconfig's output thruogh the "years" to 
> come? Not a joke.
> 
> 
>>2) take it's sources, convert them to pascal and make a special GPLed
>>plugin to Your program
> 
> 
> This is actually what I was looking for. Actually, I scrolled down the whole 
> Libc wrapper to see if there was something suitable but found nothing, so I 
> guessed somebody could give me a clue of the basic functions to do that. 
> Anyway, I think I'll go through its source code.
> 
> Thanx, A.
> 


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