Re: [PHP] Get users MAC-address of visitor

2004-06-23 Thread Matt Matijevich
[snip] What i am thinking about is using the MAC-address instead of the IP-address to ban troublesome users from forums etc. [/snip] Do you make people login? If you do couldn't you just flag troublesome users and not allow them to login. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsu

Re: [PHP] Get users MAC-address of visitor

2004-06-23 Thread Marek Kilimajer
Yngve wrote --- napísal:: Hi! I wonder how i can retrive the MAC-address of the visitor using PHP? What i am thinking about is using the MAC-address instead of the IP-address to ban troublesome users from forums etc. If i just use the IP-address some users will just change it. I know that it´s poss

Re: [PHP] Get users MAC-address of visitor

2004-06-23 Thread Travis Low
I don't think you can get that information. The packet at the MAC level is encpasulating the IP datagram. When the datagram is passed along to another network (e.g. through a router), another MAC packet is constructed, and the payload (datagram) of the original MAC packet is placed into the ne

[PHP] Get users MAC-address of visitor

2004-06-23 Thread Yngve
Hi! I wonder how i can retrive the MAC-address of the visitor using PHP? What i am thinking about is using the MAC-address instead of the IP-address to ban troublesome users from forums etc. If i just use the IP-address some users will just change it. I know that it´s possibly to spoof the MAC a