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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Denis McMahon wrote:
>>> On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:17:48 -0500, Doug Miller wrote:
>>>> On 11/21/2011 11:43 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>>>>> Denis McMahon wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:15:12 -0800, rrvasanth wrote:
>>>>>>> I need to know the MAC address of the connect clients, how can I do
>>>>>>> this in PHP?
>>>>>> […]
>>>>> It is neither irrelevant nor impossible to obtain that information
>>>>> using PHP.  You would know that if you knew that MAC addresses do not
>>>>> require Ethernet.
>>> […]
>>> Actually, I would love to see TPEL code a web page that displayed the
>>> MAC address of any computer that requested it. However, it's impossible
>>> for him to do it!
>> 
>> "Any computer" and "web page" are ideas of yours that have nothing to do
>> with the original question.
>> 
>>> He does not have the ability to code such a page.
>> 
>> Nobody has, but only because you have raised the bar.  A common fallacy,
>> but not an unexpected one coming from you.
>> […]
>> Hint: arp.
>
> which will reveal ONLY the nodes on the LOCAL directly connected
> network. In the case of many hosted servers, that will be an upstream
> router ONLY
> 
> Once past a router, the MAC dress is lost.
> 
> Hint: that's why we don't run the internet using MAC addresses for wide
> area routing.
> .

It is good to see that at least one person got the meaning of my posting.
There is hope for you yet.


PointedEars
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