Tuesday, January 27, 2009

How do I get MAC address of a host?

import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.NetworkInterface;
import java.net.SocketException;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;

public class MacAddress {

public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
InetAddress address = InetAddress.getLocalHost();

/*
* Get NetworkInterface for the current host and then read the
* hardware address.
*/
NetworkInterface ni = NetworkInterface.getByInetAddress(address);
byte[] mac = ni.getHardwareAddress();

/*
* Extract each array of mac address and convert it to hexa with the
* following format 08-00-27-DC-4A-9E.
*/
for (int i = 0; i <>

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