[rescue] Java - code to detect MAC address?

[Eric Webb]

Since we had a good discussion related to coding lately, I figure we might 
have the talent around here to help me figure something out.  

A guy at work approached me asking if I could help him figure out a 
cross-platform way of determining MAC address of the default route NIC.  I 
can think of some commands and grepping and such that would work under a 
specific Unix (for example, AIX and Linux work differently with ifconfig, 
entstat, etc.).  But is there any cross-platform command (be it command line 
or a C lib call) that would give this information?  

The guy is using Java, so if there's a way to do this from Java, that would be 
cool, too.


Thanks,
Eric