find access point MAC address

Nov 18, 2004 3 Replies

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jiten dash 21 years ago

Hi, I connect to a network through Access Point. I need to recognize the AP

that I conncet to. A possible way is to get the MAC address. Can

someone help me with a source code to do that.

jiten

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Lars M. Hansen 21 years ago

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:41:40 +0000, Mark McIntyre spoketh

That would only be the case if the access point is also a router ... That is mostly a home-user solution, and this doesn't sound like a home-user problem, because if it were, he would know the IP address of his own device.

Since access points are transparent bridges, it won't show up in any traceroutes or arp tables, so the only way to get this information is to ask the person who would know: the network administrator.

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Mark McIntyre 21 years ago

The AP is frequently your default gateway - type IPCONFIG to see that.

If not, tracert might help - it shows you the IP of each machine you connect via, when going to a website. You could then convert the IP to a mac using nbtstat. Both tracert and nbtstat are commandline tools - open a command prompt and type them in.

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