Re: MAC address for Ethernet interface

Kenneth Porter <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:06:59 -0800

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.redhat.devel
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--On Friday, December 12, 2003 11:06 AM -0500 James Olin Oden 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> What I would do is
> get the source code for ifconfig and try to determine what it did to get
> that information  I am pretty sure its just a simple ioctl.

Just looked (it's in the net-tools package on Fedora). Sean's solution is 
what ifconfig uses, assuming you know the name of the device. To get a list 
of names, ifconfig reads /proc/net/dev.