hardiman@bcstec.boeing.com (Paul Hardiman) (06/01/91)
How does one programmaticcaly ascertain the machine address (the 6 byte code of the communications card) of a connected peer. Ciao 4 now.
mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) (06/06/91)
In article <897@bcstec.boeing.com>, hardiman@bcstec.boeing.com (Paul Hardiman) writes: > How does one programmaticcaly ascertain the machine address (the 6 > byte code of the communications card) of a connected peer. In general one cannot. The remote machine may not even *have* an Ethernet address; it may be connected by a SLIP line or a fiber-optic network or any of a zillion other possibilities. There isn't even any portable way to obtain the *local* Ethernet address; I doubt there's even a portable way to tell whether the local machine *has* an Ethernet address. Why do you care? I suspect you're trying to solve the wrong problem. der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu