MAC address

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Friday 05 March 2004 09:22 am, Iain Robertson wrote:
> Is there a linux system call or fortran routine which will output the MAC
> address on a network card?

did you mean on your local network card? 

run '/sbin/ifconfig'

you may have to parse the output just to get the MAC address (it'd be a real 
pain in fortran though). I don't know any better way.

RDB
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