There are other commandline methods of getting access to the arp table, and any API I know of is OS specific and usually requires root privilege of some kind. Is the client a browser? If so you are not going to be able to get the MAC address. Somewhat of a privacy / security issue if you could.
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Joe Ferner <[email protected]> wrote: > Does node have anyway to get the MAC address of the client connecting > to a server? I saw an arp plugin (http://search.npmjs.org/#/arp) which > would work but it requires shelling out to read the arp table which I > would prefer not to do. > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- -- Dick -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
