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

[Geoffrey C Kinnel <kinnelg@bms.com>]

After some further research, I found two Toolbox calls:

EGetInfo and OTGetProtAddress. These are documented in Inside Macintosh,
and there is a code example (in C) of the second call in use. It's not
for the weak. :)

Unless there's a way to get MacPerl to call an arbitrary Toolbox call,
you'd have to use a C routine via XS, I imagine. 

<http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/Networking/Networking-278.html>
for EgetInfo information.

<http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1103.html#Ethernet> for
pointers to the OT calls.

Hope that helps,
Geoff

Chris Nandor wrote:
> 
> At 06.14 -0500 1998.12.17, jean-michel meyer wrote:
> >>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?
> >
> >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 ?
> 
> No, the ethernet hardware address, or MAC address (which has nothinig to do
> with Mac OS or Macintosh), is something different than IP address.  A MAC
> address never changes, and should be unique, IIRC.  I don't know how to get
> it programmatically, though.  I know you can go to your TCP/IP control
> panel (if TCP/IP is connecting through Ethernet) and do Get Info, and the
> information is there.
>

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