From: Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@...>
Date: 2008-08-02T01:39:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Determining MAC address

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On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Thanks Kyle, nmap would be a descent Kludge for the time being.  I'll keep
my eyes on this thread.  I figured there was probably an all ruby way too
but didn't find much on google.

-- 
"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)

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