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Re: how to get the mac address(network card physical address) of a remote computer by its IP address?



2008/11/19 Aioanei Rares <debian.dev.list@gmail.com>:
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>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:06 PM, 中和刘 <minxinjianxin@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> when a user visit my website, it's easy to get the ip address of the
>> user, but i think IP address is not as stable as mac address, so I
>> hope I can get the mac address of the user according to its IP
>> address, is it possible? thanks
>>
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> Well, if the visitor uses DHCP, then his IP will change at some point, so
> one cannot
> tell the MAC if one knows the IP...however, there are tools like wireshark
> that can help you
> with MAC's.
>
thanks, i will try the tool


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