Re: NMAP and MAC Addresses

["Alan S. Jones" <asj () ipa net>]

At 12:51 PM 7/23/2004 -0700, Fyodor wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 02:35:13PM -0500, Alan Jones wrote:
> > This is NMAP 3.55 on Windows 2000.
> >
> > I know you can't get a MAC address when crossiing routers etc, but i
> > had been my understanding that you could get the MAC address for
> > others.
>
> It is *almost* supported on Windows.  Nmap does obtain the MAC address
> from winpcap (tested on my machine).  Then it calls
> IPisDirectlyConnected() to determine whether the target seems to be on
> the same Lan.  Nmap uses the routing table on UNIX machines to do
> this, but I don't know how to do so on Windows.  Here is the function:

Sorry I did not realize that it was not fully implemented in Windows.  I
thought more of it was working.  I truly wish I had the talent to finish
the implementation.  I hope there are other users here that can add value
and get things going.

Good luck!

btw, how's the book coming?

Alan



 
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