getting factory MAC address

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Sep 30 15:33:15 UTC 2014


On Sunday, September 21, 2014 8:13:17 am clutton wrote:
> Hi list. I'm relatively new here. So, Hi. :)
> 
> I don't know how to read the real MAC, I mean the one which is burned in
> ROM. Is it possible from the user space? I've ported GNU macchanger and
> it's the last non ported feature.
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187363
> 
> In Linux it can be done like this:
> https://github.com/alobbs/macchanger/blob/master/src/netinfo.c#L118

There is currently not a way to do this, though there is a patch to add this 
functionality currently on the lists.  I believe gnn@ is looking at that 
patch?

-- 
John Baldwin


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