HostName, IP, and MAC Address

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Introduction

This article is used to get the intranet information in a network. It shows information like the host name, corresponding IP address and also physical address.

Using the code

The code retrieves all the System names using the Directory entries information.

//       // Use Your work Group WinNT://Baba(Work Group Name)
//     DirectoryEntry DomainEntry = 
//         new DirectoryEntry("WinNT://" + this.TxtWorkGroup.Text.Trim());
//     DomainEntry.Children.SchemaFilter.Add("computer");

Then we collect the IP address using the DNS.

//    System.Net.IPHostEntry Tempaddr = 
 //     (System.Net.IPHostEntry)Dns.GetHostByName(machine.Name);
//    System.Net.IPAddress[] TempAd = Tempaddr.AddressList;

The physical MAC address is collected using the DLL "iphlpapi.dll" with the API SendARP().

For each System, we use the Hostname to retrieve the MAC address.

//    [DllImport("iphlpapi.dll", ExactSpelling=true)]
//    public static extern int SendARP( int DestIP, int SrcIP, 
//         [Out] byte[] pMacAddr, ref int PhyAddrLen );

Points of Interest

This is my first article in CodeProject.

History

• 01/24/2005

  Article released.

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