getting mac address through java

• kaobeikaobu

  20 Sep 04, 17:57

  I have a problem here...currently, IP helper API's sendARP allows me to retreive mac address of a generic device...but is it possible to do it in java applet? Heard it's quite impossible cuz it's layer 2...
  help pls...thanks a lot!
• SnowFlag

  20 Sep 04, 18:00

  can u explain this
  IP helper API's sendARP
• kaobeikaobu

  21 Sep 04, 01:13

  Originally posted by SnowFlag:

  can u explain this
  IP helper API's sendARP

  sorry...this one is frm microsoft...basically execute arp inplicitly to query mac address....similar when we type arp -a or -s in cmd prompt...
• SnowFlag

  21 Sep 04, 23:54

  I think what they normally do is to use JNI with java to get the MAC address.