Very Computer

There has to be a syscall or something that does this.

I tried looking at the "ethers" man page but when I actually try to
write code, the headers don't match up, and ether_hostton isn't
defined anywhere in the headers or libraries in my system.

This is on a 2.6 box, but should be general enough to work on 2.5 thru
8.

Thanks!

Quote:> I'm looking for a good way to find the ethernet address of the first
> NIC in a Solaris box.

Paul  

When you first mentioned it I thought it might be something like ktrace on
*BSD, but it appears it's a different creature.

I wrote some code on my FreeBSD box using ioctl's (SIOCGIFCONF and friends)
that successfully retrieves the link (Ethernet) addresses from interfaces,
and works great.  Unfortunately, that same code, when built on Solaris (2.6
anyway) retrieves only IP interfaces and link-level interfaces are not
listed.  Oh well onto the next idea...

Quote:> Hi,

> > I'm looking for a good way to find the ethernet address of the first
> > NIC in a Solaris box.

> Have you tried strace'ing ifconfig?
> I just tried that on my Linux box and can see it gets it's information
> using ioctl's on a UDP socket.

> Paul  

: Not yet.  I'll have to play with strace.  It's not obvious how it functions
: on Solaris.

I think the earlier poster meant the 'truss' command. That does on
Solaris what 'strace' does on Linux.

--
 +--  ///\   Ian Durkacz  ------------------------------------------+
 |    C-oo   Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering  |
 |    \  >   The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England        |

Quote:>Not yet.  I'll have to play with strace.  It's not obvious how it functions
>on Solaris.

--
okay, have a sig then

If, like many people, you are seeking a unique cookie, it's called "hostid"
on Sparc hardware, at least.

-s
--

 +--- Need quality network services, server-grade computers, or a shell? ---+
 v   C/Unix wizard, Pro-commerce radical, Spam fighter.  Boycott Spamazon!  v
Consulting, computers, web hosting, and shell access: http://www.plethora.net/