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 Posted by Shane on 10/12/05 21:25 
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:49:59 -0400, Ben Xia wrote: 
 
> Thanks for the very quick reply, I want to know the mac address of my  
> clients as I guess these is the best way to fight with internet fraud. 
> Too sad according your answer seems no way to detect the remote mac  
> address... as you know to detect the ip address is not very useful... so is  
> there some better way to detect the fraud? my website has lost 2000 dollars  
> as some guy are using stolen credit card and do repeat order from different  
> ip address and different account... 
>  
> Ben 
>  
> "Oli Filth" <catch@olifilth.co.uk> wrote in message  
> news:r_a3f.9133$6c4.57@newsfe5-win.ntli.net... 
>> Ben Xia said the following on 12/10/2005 17:34: 
>>> Is there some way can detect MAC address with PHP? any help will be  
>>> appreciate. 
>>> 
>> 
>> MAC address of your clients, or the machine you're running on? 
>> 
>> If you're talking about clients, then that's impossible unless they're  
>> running on the same local network as the server (i.e. connected to the  
>> same router, in which case you can use command-line "arp -a xx.xx.xx.xx"  
>> in Win, or some equivalent in *nix). 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --  
>> Oli 
 
MAC addresses can be faked 
 
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Hardware, n.: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked 
 
The best way to get the right answer on usenet is to post the wrong one.
 
  
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