Re: how to get mac address

2010-01-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 06 January 2010 20:01:18 John Hasler wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. writes: > > MAC addresses are not normally used for network identification outside > > of their segment. In addition, none of the higher level protocols in > > common use contain the MAC address in their headers. >

Re: how to get mac address

2010-01-06 Thread John Hasler
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. writes: > MAC addresses are not normally used for network identification outside > of their segment. In addition, none of the higher level protocols in > common use contain the MAC address in their headers. The reason being that said network segments are not necessarily Eth

Re: how to get mac address

2010-01-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <1262814712.27527.5.ca...@ubuntu>, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: >How can I get the MAC address of a computer, if it isn't in the same >network segment? MAC addresses are not normally used for network identification outside of their segment. In addition, none of the higher level protocols in common us

Re: how to get mac address

2010-01-06 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Vadkan Jozsef put forth on 1/6/2010 3:51 PM: >> How can I get the MAC address of a computer, if it isn't in the same >> network segment? >> >> e.g.: can I get the MAC from a normal, public IP? >> >> There is no solution for this? > > tcp

Re: how to get mac address

2010-01-06 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Vadkan Jozsef put forth on 1/6/2010 3:51 PM: > How can I get the MAC address of a computer, if it isn't in the same > network segment? > > e.g.: can I get the MAC from a normal, public IP? > > There is no solution for this? tcpdump with the "-e" option will display the MAC address. -- Stan --

how to get mac address

2010-01-06 Thread Vadkan Jozsef
How can I get the MAC address of a computer, if it isn't in the same network segment? e.g.: can I get the MAC from a normal, public IP? There is no solution for this? Thank you! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact