Comments on: Detecting MAC Address using C application

By: vkjr

vkjr — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:29:50 +0000

Big thanks

By: Another Geek

Another Geek — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:20:15 +0000

Is there a method to know Mac-Id if the PC is not in network? The above solution fails to read Mac-Id for a computer if eth0 is down while ifconfig shows it even then???

By: Dwijesh

Dwijesh — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:50:44 +0000

Hello thanks for this code it is running in my dabian linux I got the eth0 MAC address , How can I get the eth1 MAC address . can I send the driver name in command prompt so according to driver it will give it’s mac address..???
waiting for response

Thanks..

By: Harsh

Harsh — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:02:49 +0000

I was spending hours trying to cover the ifconfig source code for doing the same until I searched again out of frustration and found this.

Thank you for the function

By: ashna

ashna — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:38:56 +0000

nothing is coming in HP UX .

By: lesterc

lesterc — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:16:11 +0000

May I know why is that -O2 needed?

By: vk

vk — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:33:16 +0000

It is modified right in the for statement by “–i”

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:37:17 +0000

The for loop within the Linux code looks wrong to me since the i variable is never modified. Am I missing something?

By: Hazwan Halim

Hazwan Halim — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:10:47 +0000

Hello

i tried to run the code for detecting MAC address that you had published here using Microsoft Visual C++ but then i had many errors after compiling. I have added all the header files that is required but it seems that this code could not run under VC++. What type of SDK that is suitable to run this code or do you have any other options that could detect MAC address using VC++? Thank you.

Hello this function is for *NIX based OS, currently I have no information on similar function on VC++. Thanks