Tangent, if that's the code that comes up with mgmt server id (by Mac address conversion to short), its bitten me in the past. It doesn't tolerate new NICs well, for example in development when a mgmt server is also a host and a link local bridge is created. Seems bad form to just run ifconfig and grab the first Mac you find. On Oct 26, 2013 5:12 PM, "Darren Shepherd" <darren.s.sheph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a specific reason that in MacAddress it uses "ifconfig" or > other utilities to grab the Mac Address as opposed to the java API > java.net.NetworkInterface? There's a comment in that code that says > that code was copied from some public domain utility. So I'm guessing > its there just because that's what somebody wrote back before Java 6 > introduced NetworkInteface.getHardwareAddress(). I'd like to rewrite > this code to use the standard API, grab the Mac deterministically and > also not use ifconfig which was deprecated 3 years ago. > > Darren >
