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Nmap Development: Re: NMAP and MAC Addresses

Re: NMAP and MAC Addresses

From: Alan S. Jones <asj_at_ipa.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 23:55:58 -0500

At 12:51 PM 7/23/2004 -0700, Fyodor wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 02:35:13PM -0500, Alan Jones wrote:
>> This is NMAP 3.55 on Windows 2000.
>>
>> I know you can't get a MAC address when crossiing routers etc, but i
>> had been my understanding that you could get the MAC address for
>> others.
>
>It is *almost* supported on Windows. Nmap does obtain the MAC address
>from winpcap (tested on my machine). Then it calls
>IPisDirectlyConnected() to determine whether the target seems to be on
>the same Lan. Nmap uses the routing table on UNIX machines to do
>this, but I don't know how to do so on Windows. Here is the function:

Sorry I did not realize that it was not fully implemented in Windows. I
thought more of it was working. I truly wish I had the talent to finish
the implementation. I hope there are other users here that can add value
and get things going.

Good luck!

btw, how's the book coming?

Alan

 

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Alan S. Jones
asj_at_ipa.net
http://users.ipa.net/~asj
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