----- Original Message ----- From: "Warren Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 7:08 PM Subject: Re: Getting MAC address within C/C++-program in Windows2000 http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00602.html
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > It's entirely possible that there is a problem with Cygwin's interface > > but I really don't understand why the focus shifted to using Windows > > mechanisms when a potential actual cygwin solution exists. > > Right on, Chris. If the Cygwin mechanism is broken, it should be made > to work instead of rolling your own outside of Cygwin. > > For what it's worth, in my time of maintiaining the Winsock FAQ, I've > come across probably 10 different ways to get the MAC address on > Windows. One works on NetBIOS systems, one on IP-only systems, one uses > SNMP, a few are hacks, several are indirect methods... Exactly. See http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=alno5j%241rsu90%241%40ID-79865.news.dfncis.de > The FAQ itself documents 3 or 4 of them and points to a few more. > Then I lost interest in keeping track of that mess. Also me. > Point being: it's much better to let > Cygwin handle messes like this. Exactly. See http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00922.html ================== Alex Vinokur mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://up.to/alexvn ================== -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
