On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, John Whitnack wrote:
> Is there a way to get a person MAC address using apache, mod_perl or
> javascript. I have yet to find a way to do this? I need a way to
> uniquely identify the computer a person is using (i.e. not ip address).
Bear in mind that a MAC address is something specific to an *Ethernet*
network. ATM networks have their own addressing scheme and other networks
will have theirs.
This would only work if the person is on the same *link layer network* as
you, ie, non-routed (because then you'll just get the mac of the router).
The answer is to parse the output of arp -a, or equivalent...
MBM
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