> If only I knew how to retrieve that information from Windows.
> I did look at the Cygwin source for SIOCGIFCONF, which searches
> the registry for the IP adress + mask. But in the registry
> I was unable to find the MAC address. So how to retrieve
> that information from Windows using whatever Windows API calls?
A quick search turns up
Q118623 - HOWTO: Get the MAC Address for an Ethernet Adapter
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q118/6/23.asp
The answer is a little unsatisfying in a number of respects (assumes
NetBIOS is bound on that card, it may return randomly generated
addressed for some non-Ethernet interfaces, etc.) but is better than
nothing.
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