SPUG: MAC address

[Andrew Sweger]

That information is lost when going through bridges and routers. For
example, if you pulled the MAC from the ARP table for the remote half of
the socket, you may be getting the MAC of the local router involved in
that socket. If you're only dealing with local LAN connections, there
might be a way.

I can go on (and on) about this off-list if you like.

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 benjamin at dzhan.com wrote:

> Is there a way using perl socket/networking functions to determine the
> source hardware MAC address of incoming connections?

-- 
Andrew B. Sweger -- The great thing about multitasking is that several
                                things can go wrong at once.


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