/* Perl ARP Extension Get the MAC address of an interface Linux code Programmed by Bastian Ballmann Last update: 09.02.2006 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include "arp.h" int get_mac_linux(const char *dev, char *mac) { int sock; struct ifreq iface; if ( !strlen(mac) || !strlen(dev) ) return -1; /* Set hardware address as unknown */ strncpy(mac,"unknown", HEX_HW_ADDR_LEN); mac[HEX_HW_ADDR_LEN-1] = '\0'; /* Copy device name into the ifreq strcture so that we can look for its * hardware address through an ioctl request */ strncpy(iface.ifr_name, dev, IFNAMSIZ); iface.ifr_name[IFNAMSIZ-1] = '\0'; // Open a socket if((sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)) < 0) { perror("socket"); return -1; } else { // Get the interface hardware address if((ioctl(sock, SIOCGIFHWADDR, &iface)) < 0) { perror("ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR"); return -1; } else { sprintf(mac,"%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x", iface.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[0] & 0xff, iface.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[1] & 0xff, iface.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[2] & 0xff, iface.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[3] & 0xff, iface.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[4] & 0xff, iface.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[5] & 0xff); } } return 0; }