mac-address
Shell command for getting mac address in OS X
ifconfig en1 gets the interface details for wifi, the mac is on a line starting with ether, and is the second word on that line so: ifconfig en1 | awk ‘/ether/{print $2}’
How to get client MAC address by a access on a website?
The MAC address, by TCP/IP standards, is never communicated outside of the local-area network to which it pertains — routers beyond that LAN don’t even get the information you’re trying to record. There are many other ways to try and identify unique visitors, including matching the user-agent’s details in addition to the IP, serving cookies … Read more
How can I get a MAC address from an HTTP request?
It depends on your network setup. But probably no. Here is a short refresher on Ethernet and IP. The MAC address is a unique address of the network card. It is used to identify for which user on the network segment a packet is. You can use ARP to get a MAC address for an … Read more
Finding original MAC address from hardware itself
Certainly in ethtool you can just print the address: -P –show-permaddr Queries the specified network device for permanent hardware address. e.g. ethtool -P eth0 produces Permanent address: 94:de:80:6a:21:25
Setting a VM’s mac address in Vagrant
I used this: config.vm.network :bridged , :mac => “080027XXXXXX” and got what I wanted. The docs are unclear on what the syntax for the options hash were, and there seemed to be no example on what this should look like. So, here it is! Bridged with a mac address (edited of course). This brings up … Read more
Getting MAC address in Android 6.0
Please refer to Android 6.0 Changes. To provide users with greater data protection, starting in this release, Android removes programmatic access to the device’s local hardware identifier for apps using the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth APIs. The WifiInfo.getMacAddress() and the BluetoothAdapter.getAddress() methods now return a constant value of 02:00:00:00:00:00. To access the hardware identifiers of nearby … Read more
Get MAC address using shell script
You can do as follows ifconfig <Interface ex:eth0,eth1> | grep -o -E ‘([[:xdigit:]]{1,2}:){5}[[:xdigit:]]{1,2}’ Also you can get MAC for all interface as follows cat /sys/class/net/*/address For particular interface like for eth0 cat /sys/class/net/eth0/address
How to get MAC address of your machine using a C program?
Much nicer than all this socket or shell madness is simply using sysfs for this: the file /sys/class/net/eth0/address carries your mac adress as simple string you can read with fopen()/fscanf()/fclose(). Nothing easier than that. And if you want to support other network interfaces than eth0 (and you probably want), then simply use opendir()/readdir()/closedir() on /sys/class/net/.
Programmatically getting the MAC of an Android device
As was already pointed out in the comment, the MAC address can be received via the WifiManager. WifiManager manager = (WifiManager) getSystemService(Context.WIFI_SERVICE); WifiInfo info = manager.getConnectionInfo(); String address = info.getMacAddress(); Also do not forget to add the appropriate permissions into your AndroidManifest.xml <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE”/> Please refer to Android 6.0 Changes. To provide users with greater … Read more