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Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port?

Date 2014-01-11 09:34 -0700
From Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com>
Subject Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port?
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On 01/11/2014 07:35 AM, Andriy Kornatskyy wrote:
> Sam,
> 
> How about this?
> 
> from uuid import getnode as get_mac
> '%012x' % get_mac()

This seems to work if you have only one ethernet adapter.  Most
computers have two (wired and wireless) adapters.

Getting a mac address is platform-specific, and the OP has not specified
what OS he is using.

On Windows I imagine you'd have to access the WMI subsystem in Windows.

On Linux you could access the /sys/devices/virtual/net/<interface name>
file in the sysfs filesystem.  I'm sure there are other ways.

No idea on OS X.

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How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Sam <lightaiyee@gmail.com> - 2014-01-11 06:26 -0800
  Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Andriy Kornatskyy <andriy.kornatskyy@live.com> - 2014-01-11 16:35 +0200
    Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-01-11 15:54 +0000
      Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-11 11:29 -0500
        Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-12 08:40 +1100
          Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-11 16:55 -0500
            Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-12 09:08 +1100
            Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-01-12 11:22 -0500
  Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-12 01:38 +1100
  Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-12 01:52 +1100
  Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-01-11 09:03 -0600
  Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-01-11 09:34 -0700
    Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Sam <lightaiyee@gmail.com> - 2014-01-11 17:25 -0800
  Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? William Ray Wing <wrw@mac.com> - 2014-01-13 10:42 -0500
  Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-14 03:47 +1100

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