Getting a MAC (physical) address...

[thehorse13]

Scanning w/ nmap on a wireless LAN probably yields different results because anybody running wireless is probably got a software firewall (you'd be an id10t not to).

Never underestimate the the stupidity of people in large numbers. I have seen deplorable results when using NMAP against wireless devices. Firewalls are not as common as one might think (on soho and personal devices).

--TH13

[Tedob1]

if its a simple lan that your laptop is attached to than a simple ping will put the mac addy in your arp cache.

if all your machines show in a "net view" then a simple batch file can help


arpaddy.bat
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net view >>nv.txt

for /F "tokens=1 skip=3 delims=\\" %%X in (nv.txt) do ping -n 2 %%X

arp -a >>arpaddy.txt

notepad arpaddy.txt
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