Mac address how to get it ?

[Psychophanta]

Thank you Flype

[ABBKlaus]

Fantastic and cleaner than mine

[Flype]

feel the PB4 power

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Structure ADDRESS
  IpLong.l
  IpString.s
  MacString.s
  MacLength.l
  MacArray.b[6]
EndStructure

Procedure.l GetIPAddresses(usrList.ADDRESS(), HostName.s = "") 
  Protected wsa.WSADATA, *host.HOSTENT
  If WSAStartup_(1<<8|1, wsa) = #NOERROR
    *host = gethostbyname_(HostName)
    WSACleanup_()
    If *host
      For i = 0 To *host\h_length - 1
        If AddElement(usrList())
          usrList()\IpLong = PeekL(PeekL(*host\h_addr_list)+(i*SizeOf(Long)))
          usrList()\IpString = IPString(usrList()\IpLong)
          usrList()\MacLength = SizeOf(ADDRESS\MacArray)
          If SendARP_(usrList()\IpLong, 0, @usrList()\MacArray, @usrList()\MacLength) = #NO_ERROR 
            For j = 0 To usrList()\MacLength - 2
              usrList()\MacString + RSet(Hex(usrList()\MacArray[j] & 255), 2, "0") + ":"
            Next
            usrList()\MacString + RSet(Hex(usrList()\MacArray[j] & 255), 2, "0")
          EndIf
        EndIf
      Next
    EndIf
  EndIf
  ProcedureReturn CountList(usrList())
EndProcedure

NewList list.ADDRESS()

If GetIPAddresses(list())
  ForEach list()
    Debug "IP: " + list()\IpString
    Debug "MAC: " + list()\MacString
  Next
EndIf

[netmaestro]

Nice code, Flype! If I may make one infinitely tiny suggestion, PB4 has unsigned bytes now, so MacArray.c[6] would be slightly cleaner as & 255 wouldn't be needed.

[Psychophanta]

Nice code, Flype! If I may make one infinitely tiny suggestion, PB4 has unsigned bytes now, so MacArray.c[6] would be slightly cleaner as & 255 wouldn't be needed.

Indeed, that's a point

[Flype]

yes but no

if you do that it becomes no more compatible with unicode compiler option.
so it's better to let .b because .c is not a true unsigned byte as it is 2 bytes length in unicode.

[Haruks]

Thank you Flype!!!

[SFSxOI]

does this even work in PB4.4 ?

[jamirokwai]

Hi,

has anyone tried to implement this for Linux or Mac? I'd be heavily interested...
I am also seeking for a cross-platform-way to find all computers in a network... Like Apples Bonjour.

[IdeasVacuum]

Does not work with PB4.51 RC1 (x86) on WinXP 32bit:

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Procedure.l GetIPAddresses(usrList.ADDRESS(), HostName.s = "")

Syntax error.

This does work on WinXP 32bit:

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... 0&start=30

[LuCiFeR[SD]]

try

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Procedure.l GetIPAddresses(List usrList.ADDRESS(), HostName.s = "") 

instead.

oh, and while I remember... change

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ProcedureReturn CountList(usrList())

to

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ProcedureReturn ListSize(usrList())

[IdeasVacuum]

Thank you, that does make it work - I noticed the CountList depreciation.

However, after all, the code is not suitable because it only finds the MAC address if the NIC is connected

Edit: I should say, not suitable for returning the address of the PC it is run from, since I wanted the code for that purpose alone, which in fact it was not intended for anyway.

[Rook Zimbabwe]

Nice one Flype!

Though the MAC ADD can be spoofed easily so if you aare planning on crunking someone on a LAN party... does this work too?

[blueznl]

Browsing back I've done some similar stuff when doing WinSock, but that wasn't unicode either... Here's a quick go at turning Flype's code into Unicode compatible stuff. I probably should have used prototypes / pseudotypes, I guess, but this seems to work as well.

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Procedure.s x_getipaddress(host.s)                                                           ; find ip address for given hostname
  Protected *host.HOSTENT, *m
  ;
  ; based on code by flype
  ;
  If host > ""
    If WSAStartup_ ((1<<8|1), wsa.WSADATA) = #NOERROR
      *m = AllocateMemory(#MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH+1)
      PokeS(*m,host,#MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH,#PB_Ascii)
      *host.HOSTENT = gethostbyname_(*m)
      WSACleanup_()
      FreeMemory(*m)
      If *host
        ProcedureReturn PeekS(inet_ntoa_(PeekL(PeekL(*host\h_addr_list))),#MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH,#PB_Ascii)
      EndIf
    EndIf
  EndIf
EndProcedure

Procedure.s x_getmacaddress(ip.s)                                                            ; find mac address for given ip address
  Protected n.i, l.i, *ip, *mac, mac.s
  ;
  ; based on code by flype
  ;
  l = Len(ip)
  n = 6
  ;
  *ip = AllocateMemory(l+1)
  *mac = AllocateMemory(n)
  PokeS(*ip,ip,l,#PB_Ascii)
  If SendARP_(inet_addr_(*ip),0,*mac, @n) = #NO_ERROR
    For i = 0 To n - 2
      mac = mac + RSet(Hex(PeekA(*mac+i)),2,"0") + ":"
    Next
    mac = mac + RSet(Hex(PeekA(*mac+i)),2,"0")
  Else
    mac = ""
  EndIf
  FreeMemory(*ip)
  FreeMemory(*mac)
  ProcedureReturn mac
EndProcedure

I also think there is a function called HostName()...

[Opcode]

Some of the solutions here worked (partially), however I needed something fast and with PB5 there's a speedy way to pull a mac address.

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InitNetwork()

Procedure GetIPAddr()
  
  If ExamineIPAddresses()
    IP = NextIPAddress()
    If IP
      ProcedureReturn IP
    EndIf
  EndIf
  
EndProcedure

Procedure.s GetMacAddr()
  
  Protected.l n = 6
  Dim MacAddr.b(n)
  
  If SendARP_(GetIPAddr(), 0, @MacAddr(0), @n) = #NO_ERROR
    For i = 0 To n - 2
      MAC$ + RSet(Hex(MacAddr(i) & 255), 2, "0") + ":"
    Next
    ProcedureReturn MAC$ + RSet(Hex(MacAddr(i) & 255), 2, "0")
  EndIf
  
EndProcedure

Debug Hostname()
Debug IPString(GetIPAddr())
Debug GetMacAddr()