get Mac address

get Mac address

• ShareCropper

  David M. Kean - MSFT wrote:

  Have a look at the System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkInterface class. It has a shared (static in C#) member called GetAllNetworkInterfaces() that returns an array on NetworkInterface classes that represent available network connections. The NetworkInterface class has a method called GetAllNetworkInterfaces() that returns the MAC address.

  Thanks David. It was helpful.

  As I am using .Net 2.0 (c#) using your above comment following code did return exactly what I was looking for.

  Using Microsoft Help for "System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkInterface" class & suggested method (GetAllNetworkInterfaces() , GetPhysicalAddress()) searched MSDN & it had example returning MAC address.

   public static void DisplayTypeAndAddress()
  {
    IPGlobalProperties computerProperties = IPGlobalProperties.GetIPGlobalProperties();
    NetworkInterface[] nics = NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces();
    Console.WriteLine("Interface information for {0}.{1}   ",
        computerProperties.HostName, computerProperties.DomainName);
    foreach (NetworkInterface adapter in nics)
    {
      IPInterfaceProperties properties = adapter.GetIPProperties();
      Console.WriteLine(adapter.Description);
      Console.WriteLine(String.Empty.PadLeft(adapter.Description.Length,'='));
      Console.WriteLine(" Interface type .......................... : {0}", adapter.NetworkInterfaceType);
      Console.WriteLine(" Physical Address ........................ : {0}", 
            adapter.GetPhysicalAddress().ToString());
      Console.WriteLine(" Is receive only.......................... : {0}", adapter.IsReceiveOnly);
      Console.WriteLine(" Multicast................................ : {0}", adapter.SupportsMulticast);
     }
    }
  

  Note: For "IPGlobalProperties " you need to add refrence to "using System.Net.NetworkInformation;"

  
  
  

• nildorn

  Have a look at the System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkInterface class.

  It has a shared (static in C#) member called GetAllNetworkInterfaces() that returns an array on NetworkInterface classes that represent available network connections.

  The NetworkInterface class has a method called GetPhysicalAddress() that returns the MAC address.

  
  
  
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