Is it possible to make a patch for require('os').networkInterfaces() to
show mac addresses? It would be a bit more useful...
On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 2:32:21 AM UTC+4, Ken wrote:
>
> Relatively untested so not published to npm yet, but you can clone it from
> here
>
> https://github.com/femto113/node-ifconfig
>
> All this module does is use child_process.exec to run ifconfig (with no
> arguments), and then parses its seizure inducing output format
> into nested javascript objects. From there it's relatively simple to do
> whatever you want with it, e.g. dig out MAC addresses.
> There exist far more ambitious
> projects<https://github.com/postwait/node-ife>that are supersets of this
> functionality, and also some that simply regex
> out the MAC addresses <https://github.com/bevry/getmac>
> from ifconfig without bothering to parse the output, but none of them
> quite fit my needs. Comments/issues/pull requests welcome.
>
> --Ken
>
> By way of explanation here's some sample ifconfig output, and below is the
> corresponding parsed objects:
>
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
> options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
> inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
> en0: flags=8823<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> ether 99:ff:99:42:4d:12
> media: autoselect (<unknown type>)
> status: inactive
> en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> options=2b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_HWTAGGING,TSO4>
> ether 41:7c:9f:14:56:8c
> inet6 fe90::417c:8fff:fe12:567c%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7
> inet 10.0.0.140 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
> media: autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
> status: active
>
> parsed:
>
> {
> "lo0": {
> "flags": "8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384",
> "options": "3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>",
> "inet6": "fe80::1 prefixlen 128",
> "inet": "127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000"
> },
> "en0": {
> "flags": "8823<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500",
> "ether": "99:ff:99:42:4d:12",
> "media": "autoselect (<unknown type>)",
> "status": "inactive"
> },
> "en1": {
> "flags": "8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500",
> "options": "2b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_HWTAGGING,TSO4>",
> "ether": "41:7c:9f:14:56:8c",
> "inet6": "fe90::417c:8fff:fe12:567c%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7",
> "inet": "10.0.0.140 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255",
> "media": "autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)",
> "status": "active"
> }
> }
>
>
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