Posted by "M. Sokolewicz" on 10/10/05 01:52

That will give you the *local* mac address, not that of the user
visiting your page. The problem is the fact that the mac address is not
sent as part of the REQUEST. As such it's not possible for PHP to find
out what it is. So, unfortunately, no. (Though it's a very common
question on this list)

- tul

Rory Browne wrote:
> On unix
> man arp
>
> on windows
> arp/h
> arp/help
> arp/?
>
> sorry for short and sweet resp, but I'm falling asleep.
>
> On 10/9/05, Ben Sagal <bmsagal@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I have a local intranet server, running apache1.3+php4. Is it
>>possible to get the mac address of computes which access on of my php
>>pages?
>>
>>Ben
>>
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