Determining my ethernet address

[James M. Coleman]

>From article <11292 at dog.ee.lbl.gov>, by torek at elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek):
> In article <1467 at babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu>
> bigbroth at cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (James M. Coleman) writes:
>>I need to find out the ethernet address of the machine my
>>program is running on ...
> 
> Why do you assume that you even *have* an Ethernet address?  The
> machine I am typing at is on the Internet but is not on an Ethernet.
> (It happens to have an Ethernet address anyway, as it is a Sparcstation
> SLC.)  Any machine may have any number of Ethernet addresses, from 0
> to infinity (well... :-) ).
 
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> In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Lawrence Berkeley Lab CSE/EE (+1 415 486 5427)
> Berkeley, CA		Domain:	torek at ee.lbl.gov


Chris,

You are right that just because a machine is on the Internet or is a Unix machine
it is not necessarily on an Ethernet or even has a Ethernet number.  There are 
certainly many other types of LAN networks.  But ALL the machines which
will be running my monitor will be on an Ethernet and will be Unix based systems.
This has been a requirement for the systems we develop for.  I imagine the people
in the know here feel this isn't very limiting and porting to other network access
protocols can be done when we get a solid base on Ethernets.  My original problem
remains unsolved: I need a way to determine from within my program what is the
Ethernet address of the machine it's running on.  I am developing on Sun's, HP's,
DECStations,VAXstations, and SGI's.  I thought it would be as easy as finding
out my Internet address(that one took me abouy half an hour) but so far no luck.

Jim



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