RE: How to find MAC address

["Martin O'Neal" <martin.oneal () corsaire com>]

We're not going to agree on this; the answer *was* misleading.  You
stated that MAC addresses were lost as soon as they go through a router,
which is incomplete.  They are lost from IP, they are not lost in
entirety.  

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.

> FYI, MS NetBIOS is broadcast which also only works on local subnets, 

Er, FYI it is neither limited to broadcast, nor limited to local
subnets.  Another misleading answer.

Martin...


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