[cw-discuss] Obtaining MAC Address while in xover office

[Robert Shearman]

Dan Phillips wrote:
> Well I've never had/read a more concise answer in such a short time 
> for any question I've ever seen posted to this forum.  Thanks Robert, 
> I'll stop working on it from that standpoint unless you know of a way 
> that I can call the Linux command from within my app and receive the 
> feedback?
>
> On 3/7/07, *Robert Shearman* <rob at codeweavers.com 
> <mailto:rob at codeweavers.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     The SendARP function isn't implemented in CrossOver.
>
>     In Linux, you can use arping command from the command line instead.
>     For example:
>     $ arping -c 1 172.16.0.12 <http://172.16.0.12>
>     WARNING: interface is ignored: Operation not permitted
>     ARPING 172.16.0.12 <http://172.16.0.12> from 172.16.0.11
>     <http://172.16.0.11> eth0
>     Unicast reply from 172.16.0.12 <http://172.16.0.12>
>     [01:FE:9B:3E:BA:AD]  50.549ms
>     Sent 1 probes (1 broadcast(s))
>     Received 1 response(s)
>
>     Of course, if the program wants to do something with the MAC address
>     then this isn't going to help.
>

You might be able to use "cxnative" followed by your program arguments 
(i.e. "arping -c 1 ...", but I'm not sure if the output of the Unix 
program is redirected to the output of cxnative.

-- 
Rob Shearman