Hi;
in Ubuntu and C++, i need the code to obtain and show for screen myself MAC.
Can you help me?.
This is part of a big program and it's the only thing which i have problems
I can use:
#include <algorithm>
#include <cassert>
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
#include <vector>
#include <netdb.h>
#include "linklayer.h"
Thanks in advance.
You want to get your MAC address in c++?
Yes daviddoria.
Surely there are better solutions, but here is an easy one:
Use the system() function to run "ifconfig > file.txt". Then load this file using ifstream and parse it to get the string after HWaddr. This is your mac address.
Dave
Well, this solution is not good for me because i have to find and show my mac for screen of terminal in Linux so ifconfig>file.txt does not work.
Any other idea?.
Many thanks Dave.
Like I said, writing to the file is the first step. The second step is then reading the file and parsing it so you can get the MAC address as a string. Then you can do whatever you want with it. Am I missing a requirement?
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