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How to gather wireless MAC addresses?

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mlc9

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Aug 15, 2007
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I have a Windows domain environment in my company with many laptops. In trying to implement a wireless solution within the office, I am needing an easy way to gather the MAC addresses of all wireless cards within the laptops of my employees. Keep in mind, I don't need the LAN port MAC, but rather the wireless card MAC.

Can anybody suggest anything? Thanks
 
While there are several ways to do this; remember that MAC addressing is borderline worthless for security purposes.

Anyhow: Are the laptops in a separate OU in AD? You could add a script which would write their MAC address to a network file.

"We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area" - Major Mike Shearer
 
Well you could utilise the script across all of the machines, but you would need to parse it for Wlan0/whatever to get the wireless MAC addresses; that shouldn't be too difficult.

"We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area" - Major Mike Shearer
 
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