How to get iOS device MAC address programmatically

Now iOS 7 devices – are always returning a MAC address of 02:00:00:00:00:00. So better use [UIDevice identifierForVendor] so better to call this method to get app specific unique key Category will more suitable #import “UIDevice+Identifier.h” – (NSString *) identifierForVendor1 { if ([[UIDevice currentDevice] respondsToSelector:@selector(identifierForVendor)]) { return [[[UIDevice currentDevice] identifierForVendor] UUIDString]; } return @””; } … Read more

Get the MAC of ASP.NET website user

The IP address is necessary for routing the communication between the client system requesting the information and the server. You can get it, because the IP address is pulled from a lower level in the TCP/IP stack (level 3 I believe). The MAC Address isn’t necessary for any of this and hence it isn’t included … Read more

how to spoof MAC address via code

I got curious so I pulled the source for MadMACs. Turned out to be pretty straightforward to port the core logic to C#, so here it is if anyone is interested. private const string baseReg = @”SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\”; public static bool SetMAC(string nicid, string newmac) { bool ret = false; using (RegistryKey bkey = GetBaseKey()) using … Read more

Read MAC Address from network adapter in .NET

Since .Net 2.0 there’s been a NetworkInterface class in the System.Net.NetworkInformation namespace that will give you this information. Try this: foreach (NetworkInterface nic in NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces()) { if (nic.OperationalStatus == OperationalStatus.Up) { Console.WriteLine(nic.GetPhysicalAddress().ToString()); break; } }

How to determine MAC Address of the actual physical network card — not virtual network interfaces created by VPN’s (.NET C#)

This is my method: it uses the fact that physical card is connected to PCI interface ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher (“Select MACAddress,PNPDeviceID FROM Win32_NetworkAdapter WHERE MACAddress IS NOT NULL AND PNPDeviceID IS NOT NULL”); ManagementObjectCollection mObject = searcher.Get(); foreach (ManagementObject obj in mObject) { string pnp = obj[“PNPDeviceID”].ToString(); if (pnp.Contains(“PCI\\”)) { string mac = … Read more

Getting MAC address in Android 6.0

Please refer to Android 6.0 Changes. To provide users with greater data protection, starting in this release, Android removes programmatic access to the device’s local hardware identifier for apps using the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth APIs. The WifiInfo.getMacAddress() and the BluetoothAdapter.getAddress() methods now return a constant value of 02:00:00:00:00:00. To access the hardware identifiers of nearby … Read more