How to get Mac Address of Client Machine in asp.net

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Hello Friends,

I want the Client Machines Mac Address in Asp.Net.

Is it Possible or not ?

Code should work in all browser..

Thanks in Advance

Posted 21-Dec-11 1:51am

Sachin Suryawanshi

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2011-12-21T03:38:00

What none of these schmucks are telling you (because they have no idea what they're doing) is what you want isn't possible in most cases.

The solutions provided so far will only work on Windows machines, IF and only IF your server ASP.NET account has permissions to the client machine. Chances are really good that your ASP.NET server account does NOT have any permissions at all to your client machines. That means you can't get the info you want using WMI.

So that leaves resolving the physical address using ARP. The problem with that is ARP is only good on the local network. That means ARP will return physical address on the network local to the caller, your server. If you try to resolve an IP address to a physical address for a remote machine in another subnet or acrossed the internet somewhere, you'll get back the physical address of the near-side interface of the first router your network path encounters going from the server to the client, not of the client machine.

Why? You'll have to read up on how TCP/IP routing works.

Oh, and another thing. MAC addresses are NOT unique. Multiple computers CAN have the same MAC address for an interface. MAC addresses cannot be used to identify individual computers or as the sole key material in an encryption or hashing algorithm.

MikeCrowSoftware · Answer 2 · 2012-02-16T04:16:00

I think you'd need some type of filter at the IIS level to get the MAC address from the IP packets and inject it into the request somehow. I'm not sure of the details, but I know the only place you are going to get the MAC address is at the network (socket) level. By the time you are in ASP.NET, you are way too far abstracted from the network level. IIS filters may even be too far away.

EDIT: Getting the MAC address via the network packet is likely only going to be valid on the same network segment -- routers in between will alter the MAC address. If you want the MAC address, your client needs to query it and send it with your request. It's more a of client-side technical hurdle at that point.

Sachin Suryawanshi · Answer 3 · 2012-05-09T18:14:00

Solution 6

Hi Friends I have solve this problem.....

I will publish its solution in next 2 days.

Thanks

Sachin...

Posted 9-May-12 18:14pm

Sachin Suryawanshi

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Sandeep Mewara 10-May-12 1:46am

Not an answer.

Raajkumar.b 21-Dec-13 0:55am

what is the solution for this ,i am also having same requirement
can u help me ?

Lokendra Joshi 18-Jun-12 4:40am

Hi Sachin,

Can you please share your ideas about with me to get MAC Address of client Machine. I need your help as you have solution for the same.

Lokendra Joshi 18-Jun-12 4:42am

I have applied following...it was running properly but it have browser dependency.....
function showMacAddress()
{
var obj = new ActiveXObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator");
var s = obj.ConnectServer(".");
var properties = s.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration");
var e = new Enumerator (properties);
var output;
output='<table border="0" cellPadding="5px" cellSpacing="1px" bgColor="#CCCCCC">';
output=output + '<tr bgColor="#EAEAEA"><td>Caption</td><td>MACAddress</td></tr>';
while(!e.atEnd())
{
e.moveNext();
var p = e.item ();
if(!p) continue;
output=output + '<tr bgColor="#FFFFFF">';
output=output + '<td>' + p.Caption; + '</td>';
output=output + '<td>' + p.MACAddress + '</td>';
output=output + '</tr>';
}
output=output + '</table>';
document.getElementById("box").innerHTML=output;
}

sravani.v · Answer 4 · 2011-12-21T01:57:00

Solution 2

Refer these:

i need MAC Address of client machine using asp.net[^]

http://www.dotnetfunda.com/forums/thread2088-how-to-get-mac-address-of-client-machine.aspx[^]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2018982/how-to-get-mac-address-of-client-machine-in-c-sharp-and-vb-net[^]

Posted 21-Dec-11 1:57am

sravani.v

Syed Salman Raza Zaidi · Answer 5 · 2011-12-21T01:53:00

Solution 1

For this you could use ManagementClass:

C#

using (var mc = new ManagementClass("Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration"))
{
    foreach(ManagementObject mo in mc.GetInstances())
    {
        Console.WriteLine(mo["MacAddress"].ToString());
    }
}

Posted 21-Dec-11 1:53am

Syed Salman Raza Zaidi

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Sachin Suryawanshi 21-Dec-11 8:01am

Thanks but this code shows the MAC Address of server it self.

I want to retrieve the MAC Address of Client Machine...

LaxmikantYadav 21-Dec-11 8:11am

Above code is of WMI. you can run it on remote machine also. Google for remote WMI query.

Syed Salman Raza Zaidi 21-Dec-11 8:05am

http://www.codeproject.com/Answers/187064/i-need-MAC-Address-of-client-machine-using-asp-net/?cmt=90859#answer1 check this out

ayad0net · Answer 6 · 2012-02-16T04:45:00

Solution 5

// Hi
//this link may be useful;

[1] http://www.dotnetfunda.com/forums/thread2088-how-to-get-mac-address-of-client-machine.aspx

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2018982/how-to-get-mac-address-of-client-machine-in-c-sharp-and-vb-net

[3] use google

thanxxxxx

Posted 16-Feb-12 4:45am

ayad0net

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Dave Kreskowiak 16-Feb-12 12:09pm

You didn't actually read these links, did you? If you did and if you understood how networking works, you'd know that the solutions provided do not work in an ASP.NET app and getting the MAC address of a client is not possible.

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