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getting mac address frmo ip

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zanoon

zanoon

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Feb 7, 2002
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hi every body,
i have program to ping a computer in vc++ and want to get it's MAC address if it is alive.

thanks
 
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Find a box on the same subnet as the target machine, ping
the target from that machine, and then probe it's ARP table for the MAC address.
 
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