SIOCGIFCONF but not SIOCGIFHWADDR

Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Mar 9 06:47:00 GMT 2001


On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 01:47:37PM +0100, bert@mail.svi.nl wrote:
> Cygwin supports ioctl(SIOCGIFCONF) just fine, which is great!, but
> ioctl(SIOCGIFHWADDR) does not seem to be supported as of SIOCGIFHWADDR.
> As I need to find out the Ethernet hardware address is there another way
> to get this information?

Up to 1.1.8 only SIOCGIFCONF, SIOCGIFADDR, SIOCGIFBRDADDR and
SIOCGIFNETMASK are supported.

The next version 1.3.0 will support SIOCGIFHWADDR, SIOCGIFMETRIC and
SIOCGIFMTU as well.

If you want to get it now, try a developers snapshot. Don't forget to
copy the header files.

Corinna

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