Re: Get mac address of physical NIC card from firmware
Re: Get mac address of physical NIC card from firmware
- Subject: Re: Get mac address of physical NIC card from firmware
- From: "Justin C. Walker" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:01:18 -0700
On Apr 14, 2011, at 10:01 , Prashant Saxena wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First of all, I am a complete newbie on Mac OS X platform and getting my hands
> on slowly. I am writing a tool that should
> print the mac address for appliance activation and license generation. Here are
> the detail of my hardware:
One way to get the physical network addresses available on a given system is to use either "ifconfig" or "scutil", the source for both of which being available to view online and download. This may provide the information you want, as well as the way to get it.
'ifconfig' uses the (rather convoluted) BSD library call getifaddrs().
'scutil' uses the SystemConfiguration library to pull the information from configuration information stored with your system.
Check the man pages for each of these commands to see how they are used; and look at the source to see how the information is retrieved from the running system.
HTH
Justin
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