Re: dhcpy6d - a MAC address aware DHCPv6 server

[Henri Wahl <h.wahl () ifw-dresden de>]

Hi Owen,
> |ioctl(sock, SIOCGIFADDR, &ifr)|
>
> Shouldn't that do the trick? I don't know if Python can do that or not, but if it can't, that's pretty weak.
As far as I was able to find out this only gives back the local MAC
address which is of no use here.

To be independent of external call I at least for Linux managed to
access neighbor cache via netlink socket as the "ip" command itself
does. Thus no external call is necessary anymore.

Regards
Henri


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