From: Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@...>
Date: 2008-08-02T00:16:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Determining MAC address

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@gmail.com> wrote:
> What would be the best (clean, cross-platform) way of determining the MAC
> address of a host when you have the hostname and IP address?
>
> --
> "Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions speak
> so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying."
>
> -Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)

And I need more coffee so I can read the posts more clearly, it's
early I mis-understood the first time ;)

I know nmap returns this sort of information when you scan a host, and
again, it's not too hard to slice up the nmap output (even if you
don't tell nmap to dump xml).

As far as all all ruby way, I'm sure there is one, but I'm unaware of it.