[rescue] Java - code to detect MAC address?

[Dave McGuire]

On Saturday, February 15, 2003, at 03:02 PM, Eric Webb wrote:
> Since we had a good discussion related to coding lately, I figure we 
> might
> have the talent around here to help me figure something out.
>
> A guy at work approached me asking if I could help him figure out a
> cross-platform way of determining MAC address of the default route 
> NIC.  I
> can think of some commands and grepping and such that would work under 
> a
> specific Unix (for example, AIX and Linux work differently with 
> ifconfig,
> entstat, etc.).  But is there any cross-platform command (be it 
> command line
> or a C lib call) that would give this information?
>
> The guy is using Java, so if there's a way to do this from Java, that 
> would be
> cool, too.

   Hmm, ARP perhaps?  Dunno if there's a way to get to that from 
something as high-level as Java.

     -Dave

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