Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4237 mails)

[Leendert Meyer <leen.meyer@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 11 August 2004 01:07, Andreas Stieger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Am Mittwoch, 11. August 2004 00:40 schrieb nhaas:
> > web page that grabs the MAC address
> >
> > Via proxy or something like this? Then every
> > time afterwards it lets them go out because it knows the MAC address.
>
> If anything like an application level gateway (proxy) or network level
> gateway (router,"gateway") is inbetween, the MAC will be lost. Also, it
> would be hard for a php script to grap the MAC address, as that whould be
> irrelevant for a process at the application level which is usually
> interfacing with a connected TCP socket.
>
> Why not let the students enter their MAC addresses themselves?
> Advise them to look for it on their NIC, via "ipconfig /all", "winipcfg" or
> "ifconfig" (Unix-like).

It is possible to let the DHCP server hand out ip# based on MAC addresses. 

Cheers,

Leen