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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