Re: Obtaining a list of MAC address for interfaces without IP

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Wed Sep 13 2000 - 12:26:18 EST


On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:41:58AM -0400, Marc Schneider wrote:
> I am trying to get a list of the MAC address for all ethernet interfaces
> in a machine. I was doing this using ioctl SIOCGIFCONF and SIOCGIFHWADDR
> calls, but this seems to only work for interfaces which have an IP
> address configured for them. I would like to be able to obtain this
> information for all interfaces, any ideas on how to do this?

Parse /proc/net/dev and call SIOCGIFHWADDR for each device.

-Andi

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