Redirecting the output

[omar bili]

hi all
i need to know how to get the Mac address of the network card and
the computer IP .

On windows there is the command ipconfig
if i can execute this command using :

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("ipconfig")
can i store the result in a text file ??
and read this text file later .

(
i know that in Unix it is called Redirecting the output
we used to use it like this : "ps -all >> tempFile.txt"
)

i hope that my request is clear
thx in advance

[Peter Chase]

You can get all the network interfaces on the machine, via pure Java, using java.net.NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces(). For each of these, you can get a list of java.net.InetAddress, from which you can get an IP address.

Most machines have one adapter with one IP address, but some are more complicated.

I don't think you can get the MAC address with pure Java. What do you want it for?