MAC Address on Linux

Mark Talluto userev at canelasoftware.com
Fri Oct 8 16:45:59 EDT 2004


On Oct 8, 2004, at 1:37 PM, Mark Waddingham wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Mark Talluto wrote:
>
>> Anyone know how to get the MAC Address on Linux?  Ken has a tip for
>> this on his site, but it does not include Linux.  I am afraid I know
>> next to nothing about Linux.  A pointer on how I could get this would
>> save me much time.  Thanks!
>>
>>
>
> All you need to do is parse the result of shell("/sbin/ifconfig"'). I
> think ifconfig sits in the same place on most Linux distributions...
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Mark

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the tip!  It worked like a charm.  Once I get the parsing of 
the returned data down, I'll update Ken with the Linux bit.

-- 
Best regards,
Mark Talluto
http://www.canelasoftware.com



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