Steve Holden wrote: > Why should you want to associate a MAC address with a socket? Each > interface has an IP address, and it's that you should be using. Say for example I want to find out the MAC if a particular interface in python.
> It may well be possible to write Python code that will run on all > platforms (for example, the same way as the os.path module does, by > importing the correct piece of code according to the platform), but it > would need maintenance. Since the interface MAC address is unimportant > for most network applications I guess nobody has so far thought it worth > contributing to the core. > That is a reasonable explanation. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
