MAC Address on Linux

[Ken Ray]

On 10/9/04 11:42 AM, "Mark Talluto" <userev at canelasoftware.com> wrote:
 case "Linux"
>      if there is a file("/sbin/ifconfig") then
>        put shell("/sbin/ifconfig") into temp
>        get matchText(temp,"HWaddr[* ]([0-9A-Z:]*)",retVal)
>      else
>        return "An error has occured."
>      end if
>      break


(Sorry about that last one)

Thanks, Mark... I tried this in my copy of RedHat 9, and I don't get
anything with "HWaddr" in /sbin/ifconfig. When I looked at Mark Waddingham's
approach of doing "cat /proc/net/arp", I didn't get anything either. The
only thing I got with /sbin/ifconfig is the localhost address (127.0.0.1).

So perhaps it's not as universal as we'd think... any suggestions for
getting MAC address in RedHat 9?


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
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Email: kray at sonsothunder.com