Class NIC

java.lang.Object

fc.net.NIC

public class NIC
extends Object

Network Interface Card related utility methods. Many of these methods are specific to ethernet type nic's.

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class	Description
static class	NIC.NICInfo	Contains information about IP addresses and the associated interface names and MAC address.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
NIC()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static Map	getMAC()	Returns a Map containing an IP address as the key and a NIC.NICInfo object as the value.
static void	main(String[] args)

Methods inherited from class Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

NIC

public NIC()

Method Details

getMAC

public static Map getMAC()

Returns a Map containing an IP address as the key and a NIC.NICInfo object as the value. Returns null if the platform type is not supported.

Note 1: Requires a NT based system (NT, 2000, XP or later) if running on windows. (this call will not work for lesser versions of windows).
Note 2: An english locale is needed for this method to work properly (because we parse for certain english words to extract the results).

main

public static void main(String[] args)
                 throws Exception

Throws:

Exception