Posted by Ben Sagal on 10/11/05 14:04

I did mention this is an INTRANET server so all clients are be local,
there are no router between the clients and the server.

how would i go about accessing arp from php, (the server runs Linux)?

Ben

On 10/10/05, M. Sokolewicz <tularis@php.net> wrote:
> 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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