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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: etting ethernet address of networkadaptor.
Date: 16 May 1997 10:25:11 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <337C24FF.167E@inferno.phys.tue.nl>,
Gert van der Plas <gert@inferno.phys.tue.nl> writes:
> I would like to obtain the physical address of the network-adapter.
> Does anyone have some code to do this? I had some code for the DEC-Alpha
> but that did not work and I could not manage to patch it since I do not
> know enough about FreeBSD 2.2.1 to do this. Can some one please help?
Hmm, ifconfig does it. I'd suggest looking at the code
to figure it out.
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !