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Message-ID: <258099.79796.qm@web94913.mail.in2.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 13:49:04 +0530 (IST) From: Prashant Saxena <animator333@...oo.com> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: physical vs virtual mac address and mac address from NIC's firmware Hi, I am a newbie on linux and writing a small tool to get info of ethernet adapters installed. Please find more details and discussions in this post: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/programming-scripting/177222-physical-vs-virtual-mac-address-mac-address-nics-firmware.html#post842296 As the tool plays an important role in licensing system thus I need to make sure that solution should work ideally on as many distros as possible. Considering the major and most commonly used distributions such as fedora, ubuntu, opensuse, debian etc. including their latest versions and bit older ones (3-4 years), what are the cons I might face using ethtool api to get perma address? BTW, you are kernel guys and I hoping that you might give me an answer for differentiating between physical and virtual adapters. The details of my distribution including requirements of app is posted on the above mentioned topic. Best Regards Prashant -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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