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Re: How to find MAC address
From: Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 03:34:13 -0800
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 12:20:43PM +0100, Martin O'Neal wrote:
Nmap may not gather MAC addresses using alternative mechanisms at the moment, but there is no reason that it can't. It already interacts with higher protocols, like RPC and NetBIOS name service, from which it already gathers the hostname. The mac address is available via the same interface.
I don't know the MSRPC protocols very well, but if the MAC address is available from the response Nmap already receives (and Nmap simply isn't grabbing it), or if changing the data will get us the same info we already do, plus the MAC address, I'd certainly welcome an nmap-service-probes patch to remidy that deficiency. Then something good can come out of this pissing match after all :). Nmap does collect and report the MAC address in certain other version detection cases (such as routers which print it in their telnet banner) Cheers, -F PS: I finished documenting the upcoming 2nd generation OS detection system. I'll send it out for comments once I return from CanSecWest (where I'm spending next week). The April 4 (Tuesday) day-long class filled up quickly, but we added a new class on April 3 (this coming Monday) and still have some slots ( http://cansecwest.com/dojorecon.html ). We also have a half-day course on Wednesday. _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev
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- How to find MAC address uday kumar kunta (Mar 31)
- Re: How to find MAC address Andreas Ericsson (Mar 31)
- Re: How to find MAC address Brandon Enright (Mar 31)
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- RE: How to find MAC address Martin O'Neal (Mar 31)
- Re: How to find MAC address Andreas Ericsson (Mar 31)
- RE: How to find MAC address Martin O'Neal (Mar 31)
- Re: How to find MAC address Andreas Ericsson (Mar 31)
- RE: How to find MAC address Martin O'Neal (Mar 31)
- Re: How to find MAC address Fyodor (Mar 31)
- Re: How to find MAC address Andreas Ericsson (Mar 31)
- RE: How to find MAC address Martin O'Neal (Mar 31)
- Re: How to find MAC address Martin Mačok (Mar 31)
- Re: How to find MAC address Kurt Grutzmacher (Mar 31)
- Re: How to find MAC address Martin Mačok (Mar 31)
- RE: How to find MAC address Martin O'Neal (Mar 31)
- RE: How to find MAC address Yudson, Marc CTR MDA/ION (Mar 31)