All the clients will be one hop away from the server so the MAC address will be available. I was hoping for a secret API off of socket or something that gives me low level access to the MAC address.
On Apr 10, 2:37 pm, Dick Hardt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
