Re: [SLE] MAC address authentication

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). Andreas