Re: Mac Address Lookup
| From: | bbonkosk at tampabay dot rr dot com | Date: | Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:48:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Mac Address Lookup | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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I guess I should have put this in one post....
Your subject says something different then your question, one asking for the computer name, the
other the MAC. To get the MAC the computer will need to be on your LAN, otherwise this is not
possible. You can then use the 'arp' command to get the MAC address.
HTH
-Brad
----- Original Message -----
From: skate <root@fatcuban.com>
Date: Friday, July 18, 2003 12:28 pm
Subject: Re: [PHP] Mac Address Lookup
> very little chance, a machine won't transmit it's MAC address,
> that the main
> point of the TCP/IP stack is to convert IP address' into MAC
> address' at
> routers and such.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ashwin Kutty" <akutty@dal.ca>
> To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 5:19 PM
> Subject: [PHP] Mac Address Lookup
>
>
> > I am trying to do a lookup of a Mac Address via PHP. Is there
> any way to
> > do so like gethostbyaddr that gets me the name of a machine?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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