Posted by Gordon Burditt on 11/08/60 11:31

>Is there any any any way I could grab the NIC MAC Address in PHP? if

The NIC MAC address is not transmitted past a router. Almost all
of the entire Internet will appear to have the same MAC address.
Also, dial modems do not *HAVE* MAC addresses. The ISP-side equipment
that receives the dialup calls is likely to have one MAC address
for several hundred simultaneous incoming calls, and you can't see
that one anyway.

>no, is there any way i can grab any hardware ID using PHP?

No, unless you mean a hardware ID *of the server*, which is
somewhat pointless.

>I actually need it for a poll system, I don't wanna use IP system for
>many users use 1 IP, and cookies is a real non-secure way. If there's
>by any chance a way to use either the NIC MAC or the internal IP
>address of a user, which is used inside the LAN i would be really
>thankful.

Do you have any idea how many users have the internal IP address of
192.168.1.1, or similar default IP addresses handed out by common
routers?

Gordon L. Burditt

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