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How do I find the MAC address programatically on IRIX?

How do I find the MAC address of a network card on IRIX? I'd rather not shell out to something that displays it and parse the output.

I'm coding C.

Methods that require root access are acceptable.

Solution 
  • #include <net/raw.h>
#include <net/if.h>
#include <net/soioctl.h> 
#include <sys/ioctl.h> 
#include <sys/types.h> 
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <unistd.h>

...

struct ifreq ifdat;
int s;

s = socket (PF_RAW, SOCK_RAW, RAWPROTO_SNOOP);
strcpy (ifdat.ifr_name, "en0");
ioctl (s, SIOCGIFADDR, &ifdat);

...

    Clean it up a little, and ifdat should contain your MAC address.