You can by issueing an arp request, but the machine has to be on
your local segment (not intranet).
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Craig R. McClanahan wrote:
> Ramanathan Srinivasan wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Will it be possible to get Mac address ,say in an intranet scenario? Does Java
>allows to get info about machine hardware details?
> >
>
> No. You can get the IP address, but not the MAC address, in Java. Come to think of
>it, can you get the MAC address of the remote
> end of a connection, even using native system calls in C or C++?
>
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > srinivasan
>
> Craig McClanahan
>
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