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- Subject: Re: mac adrress
- From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:00:04 +0200
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Enrico Colombini <erix@erix.it> wrote:
> One thing to be aware is that the above strings change according to OS
> language; also there could be other (possibly virtual) network cards, so
> extracting the desired MAC address from the output of 'ipconfig /all' isn't
> always straightforward.
Yes, I forgot that Windows speaks other languages ;)
A rather easier command to parse is getmac
Physical Address Transport Name
=================== ==========================================================
00-21-9B-6F-0F-19 \Device\Tcpip_{C0FF4EDB-2217-45F5-8814-08575CA97DC1}
00-50-56-C0-00-01 \Device\Tcpip_{09EEBB50-D557-4006-8CB0-AEFEC3E95623}
00-50-56-C0-00-08 \Device\Tcpip_{CA469F8A-22C1-4873-9BD4-EA4D1257B5C9}
But yes, it's not easy to distinguish the real interface from the
VMware interfaces...
The API route is .. tricky. nixio may be the best cross-platform option.
steve d.
