#include <sys/socket.h> #include <sys/sysctl.h> #include <net/if.h> #include <net/if_dl.h> //mac address // Return the local MAC addy // Courtesy of FreeBSD hackers email list // Accidentally munged during previous update. Fixed thanks to erica sadun & mlamb. - (NSString *)getMacAddress { int mgmtInfoBase[6]; char *msgBuffer = NULL; size_t length; unsigned char macAddress[6]; struct if_msghdr *interfaceMsgStruct; struct sockaddr_dl *socketStruct; NSString *errorFlag = NULL; // Setup the management Information Base (mib) mgmtInfoBase[0] = CTL_NET; // Request network subsystem mgmtInfoBase[1] = AF_ROUTE; // Routing table info mgmtInfoBase[2] = 0; mgmtInfoBase[3] = AF_LINK; // Request link layer information mgmtInfoBase[4] = NET_RT_IFLIST; // Request all configured interfaces // With all configured interfaces requested, get handle index if ((mgmtInfoBase[5] = if_nametoindex("en0")) == 0) errorFlag = @"if_nametoindex failure"; else { // Get the size of the data available (store in len) if (sysctl(mgmtInfoBase, 6, NULL, &length, NULL, 0) < 0) errorFlag = @"sysctl mgmtInfoBase failure"; else { // Alloc memory based on above call if ((msgBuffer = malloc(length)) == NULL) errorFlag = @"buffer allocation failure"; else { // Get system information, store in buffer if (sysctl(mgmtInfoBase, 6, msgBuffer, &length, NULL, 0) < 0) errorFlag = @"sysctl msgBuffer failure"; } } } // Befor going any further... if (errorFlag != NULL) { //NSLog(@"Error: %@", errorFlag); return errorFlag; } // Map msgbuffer to interface message structure interfaceMsgStruct = (struct if_msghdr *) msgBuffer; // Map to link-level socket structure socketStruct = (struct sockaddr_dl *) (interfaceMsgStruct + 1); // Copy link layer address data in socket structure to an array memcpy(&macAddress, socketStruct->sdl_data + socketStruct->sdl_nlen, 6); // Read from char array into a string object, into traditional Mac address format NSString *macAddressString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X", macAddress[0], macAddress[1], macAddress[2], macAddress[3], macAddress[4], macAddress[5]]; //NSLog(@"Mac Address: %@", macAddressString); // Release the buffer memory free(msgBuffer); return macAddressString; }