net.java.sip.communicator.impl.netaddr
Class HardwareAddressRetriever

java.lang.Object
  net.java.sip.communicator.impl.netaddr.HardwareAddressRetriever

public class HardwareAddressRetriever
extends Object

Class to retrieve hardware address of a specific interface. We know that starting Java 6, NetworkInterface has getHardwareAddress method but as we still support Java 5 we have to do it ourself.

Author:

Sebastien Vincent

Constructor Summary

HardwareAddressRetriever()

Method Summary

static byte[]

getHardwareAddress(String ifName) Returns the hardware address of a particular interface.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

HardwareAddressRetriever

public HardwareAddressRetriever()

Method Detail

getHardwareAddress

public static byte[] getHardwareAddress(String ifName)

Returns the hardware address of a particular interface.

Parameters:

ifName - name of the interface

Returns:

byte array representing the hardware address of the interface or null if interface is not found or other system related errors