Socket is built up on IP, not on Ethernet: you have no way of finding a MAC address using sockets simply because it may not exist one ! (if you're not on an Ethernet network) You need to access lower levels of network and probably access directly the network packet as your network card is sending it to your OS !
Pierre Johan Geldenhuys a écrit : > Hi List, > I am doing some networking programming and would like to limit access to > my socket server on the the source devices' MAC address. > I know the IP from where the connection is coming, but how could I find > out what the MAC of the source device is? > Any quick answers / ideas? > Is there a build-in function in socket that can do this? > > Thanks, > > Johan > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor -- Pierre Barbier de Reuille INRA - UMR Cirad/Inra/Cnrs/Univ.MontpellierII AMAP Botanique et Bio-informatique de l'Architecture des Plantes TA40/PSII, Boulevard de la Lironde 34398 MONTPELLIER CEDEX 5, France tel : (33) 4 67 61 65 77 fax : (33) 4 67 61 56 68 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
