Determining Ethernet HW Address

[Emile van Sebille]

The MAC ID has been used for licensing as a form
of cross platform GUID.  Other applications that
require a similar unique identifier would probably
use it as well.

Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Grant Edwards <nobody at nowhere.nohow>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
To: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: Determining Ethernet HW Address


> 
> Mind if I ask why people want to do this?  
> 
> The question of how to get the Ethernet address of an interface
> seems to come up regularly in various newsgroups (it comes up
> in the Linux groups regularly).  I've been messing with
> computers for 15 years and never needed to know an Ethernet
> address in a program, so I'm curious...
>