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From: "Fleischer, Karsten (K.)" <kfleisc1 AT getrag-ford DOT com>
To: "'bert AT mail DOT svi DOT nl'" <bert AT mail DOT svi DOT nl>,
        "Cygwin (E-mail 3)" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: SIOCGIFCONF but not SIOCGIFHWADDR
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 08:55:21 -0500
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'arp -a' from DOS prompt or bash gives you the MAC address. But I don't know
the Windows API functions behind 'arp'.

Hope this helps.

Karsten

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bert AT mail DOT svi DOT nl [mailto:bert AT mail DOT svi DOT nl]
> Sent: Freitag, 9. März 2001 13:39
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: SIOCGIFCONF but not SIOCGIFHWADDR
> 
> 
> If only I knew how to retrieve that information from Windows.
> I did look at the Cygwin source for SIOCGIFCONF, which searches
> the registry for the IP adress + mask.  But in the registry
> I was unable to find the MAC address.  So how to retrieve
> that information from Windows using whatever Windows API calls?
> 
> Bert
> 
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:31:58AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > bert AT mail DOT svi DOT nl wrote:
> > > 
> > > Cygwin supports ioctl(SIOCGIFCONF) just fine, which is great!, but
> > > ioctl(SIOCGIFHWADDR) does not seem to be supported as of 
> SIOCGIFHWADDR.
> > > As I need to find out the Ethernet hardware address is 
> there another way
> > > to get this information?
> > > 
> > 
> > You could download the Cygwin source, add the support you need and
> > submit a patch for consideration to cygwin-patches AT cygwin DOT com
> > 
> > Earnie.
> > 
> > P.S.:  See http://cygwin.com/cvs.html for how to get the CVS source.
> > 
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