- (NSString *)macaddress
{
int mib[6];
size_t len;
char *buf;
unsigned char *ptr;
struct if_msghdr *ifm;
struct sockaddr_dl *sdl;
mib[0] = CTL_NET;
mib[1] = AF_ROUTE;
mib[2] = 0;
mib[3] = AF_LINK;
mib[4] = NET_RT_IFLIST;
if ((mib[5] = if_nametoindex("en0")) == 0) {
printf("Error: if_nametoindex error\n");
return NULL;
}
if (sysctl(mib,6, NULL, &len, NULL,0) < 0) {
printf("Error: sysctl, take 1\n");
return NULL;
}
if ((buf = malloc(len)) ==NULL) {
printf("Could not allocate memory. error!\n");
return NULL;
}
if (sysctl(mib,6, buf, &len, NULL, 0) < 0) {
printf("Error: sysctl, take 2");
free(buf);
return NULL;
}
ifm = (struct if_msghdr *)buf;
sdl = (struct sockaddr_dl *)(ifm +1);
ptr = (unsigned char *)LLADDR(sdl);
NSString *outstring = [NSStringstringWithFormat:@"%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X",
*ptr, *(ptr+1), *(ptr+2), *(ptr+3), *(ptr+4), *(ptr+5)];
free(buf);
return outstring;
}