checkNodeStatusData();
        return isPermanent;
    }

/** 
 * Retrieves the MAC address of the remote network interface. Samba returns all zeros.
 *
 * @return the MAC address as an array of six bytes
 * @throws UnknownHostException if the host cannot be resolved to
 * determine the MAC address.
 */ 

    public byte[] getMacAddress() throws UnknownHostException {
        checkNodeStatusData();

    }


    /**
     * Returns the raw IP address of this NbtAddress. The result is in network
     * byte order: the highest order byte of the address is in getAddress()[0].
     *
     * @return a four byte array
     */
    public byte[] getAddress () {
        byte[] addr = new byte[4];
        addr[ 0 ] = (byte) ( ( this.address >>> 24 ) & 0xFF );
        addr[ 1 ] = (byte) ( ( this.address >>> 16 ) & 0xFF );