Release 0.4.0 · GhostofGoes/getmac

Added:

New methods for remote host MACs
- Windows: arp
- POSIX: arpreq package
New methods for interface MACs
- Windows: wmic nic
DEBUG levels: DEBUG value is now an integer, and increasing it will
increase the amount and verbosity of output. On the CLI, it can be
configured by increasing the amount of characters for the debug argument,
e.g. '-dd' for DEBUG level 2.
Jython support (Note: on Windows Jython currently only works with interfaces)
IronPython support

Significant performance improvement for remote hosts. Previously,
the average for get_mac_address(ip='10.0.0.100') was 1.71 seconds.
Now, the average is 12.7 miliseconds, with the special case of a unpopulated
arp table being only slightly higher. This was brought about by changes in
how the arp table is populated. The original method was to use the
host's ping command to send an ICMP packet to the host. This took time,
which heavily delayed the ability to actually get an address. The solution
is to instead simply send a empty UDP packet to a high port. The port
this packet is sent to can be configured using the module variable getmac.PORT.
"Fixed" resolution of localhost/127.0.0.1 by hardcoding the response.
This should resolve a lot of problematic edge cases. I'm ok with this
for now since I don't know of a case when it isn't all zeroes.
Greatly increased the reliability of getting host and interface MACs on Windows
Improved debugging output
Tightened up the size of getmac.py
Various minor stability and performance improvements
Add LICENSE to PyPI package