Re: [MacPerl] How to get ethernet addr macperl?

[jean-michel meyer <mjm@aix.pacwan.net>]

>Hello,
>
>How can one get the mac's ethernet hardware address using macperl?  I've
>searched the macperl mailing list archives and the pod's, but I haven't
>bumped into anything yet.  Any ideas?
>
>--
>Sincerely,
>Leo Wierzbowski
>

If i well understand, you want to get the IP address of a mac connect via
it's ethernet port to a internet/intranet network, isn't it ?

About a year ago i did have the same problem and did not find any explicit
answer in any pod or faq.

So i did use two ways to get it, but i can't find again the piece of code
(it was quite short) :

-You send via LWP a request to a special cgi, which get the IP address of
the mac which made the request, and the cgi reply to the client or leave
the address in a document (i.e. a text document myip.html or  a perl
document myip.pl),

- You can directly ask it with :

 use Sys::Hostname;
 $host = hostname;
print $host, \n

which give you the machine current IP address if i  made no misstake.

The choice depend of where you need to have the address right on the moment.

MJM


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