macaddr
DESCRIPTION
cross platform mac address determination for ruby
URI
http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby
http://rubyforg.org/projects/codeforpeople
INSTALL
gem install macaddr
SYNOPSIS
require 'macaddr'
Mac.addr #=> first mac addr on your system
Mac.addr.list #=> all mac addrs on your system
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This is too perfect, I was just going to start looking for some code to find
MAC addresses for a project I plan to start. Thanks!
-d
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>> NAME
>>
>> macaddr
>>
>> DESCRIPTION
>>
>> cross platform mac address determination for ruby
>
> This is too perfect, I was just going to start looking for some
> code to find
> MAC addresses for a project I plan to start. Thanks!
>
great. it's pretty simply code, but known to work on osx, linux, and
windoze. patches for other oses appreciated.
kind regards.
Quick question, what does first mean?
Do you look at interface metrics or weights, or just the first
alphabetic interface? Thx
On Sep 8, 2007, at 1:38 PM, "ara.t.howard" <ara.t....@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Quick question, what does first mean?
>
> Do you look at interface metrics or weights, or just the first
> alphabetic interface? Thx
programs like 'ifconfig' dump out mac addrs in some order - i have no
idea what that order is nor have made any effort to do so, esp on
other platforms.
basically the 'macaddr' gem just knows how to shell out and parse the
output of the appropriate networking status command on various
platforms and scrapes the output for macaddr looking tokens.
so
Mac.addr #=> the first address seen in the output
Mac.addr.list #=> all mac addrs seen in the output (Array)
Mac.addr.list.first #=> the first one, same as Mac.addr
so far my uses of determining mac addr have simply been to get a
unique id for things like encryption so i haven't cared *which* mac
addr i found, only that i found *an* address.
answer your question?
kind regards.
do you have plans to get macaddr on remote pc?
kind regards -botp