Re: getting ethernet address for interface libpcap

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

Aaron Turner wrote:
> Sorry if this is a little offtopic, but I'm in the process of ripping
> out libnet from my code and replacing it with libpcap since it can now
> inject frames.  One thing I'm stuck on though is  trying to figure out
> a reliable, cross platform way to determine the MAC address of the
> interface that a libpcap handle is bound to.

There isn't one.

At some point, I want to add to libpcap APIs that can, among other 
things, provide information such as MAC addresses, if available, and 
provide implementations for various platforms.
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