Find the MAC address of the network adapter

[alexboly]

I have to find the MAC address of the network adapter. The problem is that the solution
1) Has to work at least on Windows 9x/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP (maybe also on other Os's, like Linux);
2) Should be able of getting the MAC address for an adapter located on another computer in the LAN;
3) Shouldn't be dependent on protocol (should work both on TCP/IP and on Novell IPX etc.);
4) Should be able of getting the MAC address for all installed network adapters (either on the local computer or on the remote one).
Does anybody have any idea on how this can be done?

 

[RichardF]

Hi,

Try:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=ama8q9$41lfs$1@ID-79865.news.dfncis.de

i did a quick search on google and found this. but there were plenty of others.

Rich.

 

[alexboly]

Thanks, Richard.

Unfortunately this method does not work on Windows (which is my primary concern now), because the ioctl commands implement only a limited set of options relatively to the Berkeley sockets that does not include SIOCGIFHWADDR...
Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Alex

 

[RichardF]

How about :

http://www.codeblast.com/~gert/cpp/GetMAC.cpp.html