Re: Find MAC Address in PHP

Don't bother, if you manage to get a MAC, it won't be that of the client machine in the majority of cases since the IP you get for the request is not, in most cases, the one for that machine, but that of the proxy, router and zillion of other things that step in the middle and change the IP. Satyam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathaniel Hall" <halln@nathanielhall.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 10:00 PM Subject: [PHP] Find MAC Address in PHP

Hi all, I am attempting to find the MAC address of systems visiting my page from the local LAN. I have tried several things, but it appears it will not let me run system commands. For example, running <?php $MAC = system("arp 192.168.200.254"); echo $MAC; ?>" does not give me any output. I have copied arp to a place that the apache user can execute from and ensured arp is executable. This is on a Fedora Core 6 box running PHP 5.1.6-3.4 and Apache 2.2.3-5. Any help is appreciated. -- Nathaniel Hall -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.5.5/769 - Release Date: 19/04/2007 17:56