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  • gg1e21
    Confirmed User
    • Nov 2005
    • 116

    #1

    IP Mac Address question

    Is it possible to find out the MAC address of an IP address?
  • aflex
    Confirmed User
    • Oct 2002
    • 3127

    #2
    are you on the local machine or trying to pull this information remotely?
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    • gg1e21
      Confirmed User
      • Nov 2005
      • 116

      #3
      Remotely.

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      • aflex
        Confirmed User
        • Oct 2002
        • 3127

        #4
        Originally posted by gg1e21
        Remotely.
        dont believe its possible remotely.
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        • gg1e21
          Confirmed User
          • Nov 2005
          • 116

          #5
          Originally posted by aflex
          dont believe its possible remotely.
          Thought so, just wanted to confirm

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          • AdultEUhost
            ORLY?
            • Oct 2005
            • 2579

            #6
            You can lookup MAC addresses on manageble switches by the port, in the router you can view the arp table where you can see the IP's used by a specific MAC address.
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            • kmanrox
              aka K-Man
              • Oct 2001
              • 29295

              #7
              so do credit card companies have access to the MAC of fraudulent card users?

              always wondered this
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              • drjones
                Confirmed User
                • Oct 2005
                • 908

                #8
                No reliable way to do this that I know of. If your trying to find the mac address of a windows machine, and it has port 137 open (NetBIOS) you can use nbtscan to find the mac address remotely. http://www.inetcat.org/software/nbtscan.html

                Finding mac addresses of network cards on a LAN on the other hand is a bit easier.
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                • drjones
                  Confirmed User
                  • Oct 2005
                  • 908

                  #9
                  Originally posted by kmanrox
                  so do credit card companies have access to the MAC of fraudulent card users?

                  always wondered this
                  They might if the card users ISP provides them with that information.. I have no idea if they share that or not, but it could easily be possible. Mac addresses can be changed, however so im not sure how valuble that information would be.
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                  • AdultEUhost
                    ORLY?
                    • Oct 2005
                    • 2579

                    #10
                    And in case they does, what do they want to do with your MAC address, it is useless, i mean you cant just block it with a PHP script or something.

                    I am sure they will collect IP info but MAC no, i am sure they wont be able to.
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                    • ilbb
                      Confirmed User
                      • May 2005
                      • 3025

                      #11
                      I think that it is not possible get it by server side script

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                      • phpslave
                        Confirmed User
                        • Jan 2003
                        • 548

                        #12
                        Originally posted by gg1e21
                        Is it possible to find out the MAC address of an IP address?
                        No not without installing software on the clients machine. This information is not provided in the headers of a browser of which then a server could request it. There are no client side browser scripts that have this available to them either (ie javascript)

                        Only way is an intrusive program on the clients computer, which they would have to install. Or you would have to trick them into installing.

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