OpenEuphoria

Re: structure for GetAdaptersAddresses

• Posted by Brian Broker <brian_broker at yahoo.com> Jan 05, 2006
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Pete Stoner wrote:
> 
> Thanks Brian, I had seen your Macaddy and that is almost there but I want to
> get the 'Friendly name' - that is the name of the adapter that is shown in the
> Network Connections folder and the only way I can see is with the
> 'GetAdaptersAddresses'
> which you don't currently have wrapped. 
> 
>    This is for an old program I am rewriting, it is for changing the Ethernet
> address, currently it runs the ipconfig command into a file then reads that
> for the friendly names, I then use these friendly names to build a file as
> input
> to a netsh command. The running of the ipconfig causes a dos screen to flash
> up and I want to get rid of that, also tieing together the friendly name with
> the 'Windows' adapter name may give me another way to change the IP address...
> 
> Any help is appreciated...
> 
> PeteS

Do you need more than just the friendly name?  The reason I ask is that
GetAdaptersAddresses is limited to XP/W2K3 and Vista.  I found that
GetInterfaceInfo will return names and is supported on older OSes but I'm not
sure if that's the friendly-name or not.  But it does look easier to wrap.

I'd test it out but I simply don't have the time these days...
-- Brian