• Version: master
• Platform: Linux 4.4.0-042stab133.2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
• Subsystem: libuv / os

Virtual network interfaces do not always get a hardware address assigned on Unix:

venet0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 inet addr:127.0.0.1 P-t-P:127.0.0.1 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.255.255 inet6 addr: ::2/128 Scope:Compat UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 

uv_interface_addresses does not initialize the phys_addr member in those cases. os.networkInterfaces still returns a mac property for those interfaces which relies on uninitialized memory and can thus contain any value. I guess this will need to be fixed in libuv first, or is there a way to detect whether the phys_addr field was initialized by libuv?

cc @nodejs/libuv