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![]() Aug 23 2001, 8:52 am
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Would it be too difficult to have a client variable report the physical address (the one burned in at the factory) of the network adaptor of a client?
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AbyssDragon wrote:
Would it be too difficult to have a client variable report the physical address (the one burned in at the factory) of the network adaptor of a client? I'm not real familiar with all the details, but the arp DOS/UNIX utility will report the physical address of active connections. It doesn't seem particularly helpful though. I thought it might be worth considering. |
I'm not real familiar with all the details, but the arp DOS/UNIX utility will report the physical address of active connections. It doesn't seem particularly helpful though. I thought it might be worth considering. Heh.. now that I think of it winipcfg does the same thing. My mistake, it is retrievable through software. -AbyssDragon |
Shadowdarke wrote:
Would it be too difficult to have a client variable report the physical address (the one burned in at the factory) of the network adaptor of a client? Pretty good idea. As AbyssDragon noted, it may not exist in all cases. We've also been discussing whether we really want to support this kind of privacy invasion (not that you could really do anything with this info). But if we do have implement a more powerful client-side identity system, this sounds like a good route. |
Tom wrote:
Shadowdarke wrote: I agree, and, it could be used as a last resort for players who have an everchanging IP, ban the root, so they wont come back nomatter what. (Course, this has its sideeffects) |
If I'm not wrong (and I very well may be), modems don't have one of these, only ethernet cards and such (in which it is called the MAC Address). Those using networks such as these would have a static IP (mostly likely on cable, or a big company or college lan), and it would be pretty unnessary to get this address since their IP is a perfect identifier. Modem connections wouldn't have one, so it wouldn't solve the problem of not being able to pinpoint them by IP.
Also, I'm not sure if there's any way to read the MAC Address of a card. I was under the impression it was only used as an identifier by the hardware and not ever reported to software.
-AbyssDragon