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I was hoping to find something to get MAC address of a machine given its IP address or hostname. There
could be multiple ways to do the same. But I thought I'll give the "nbtstat" a chance. nbtstat is a command in
windows which gets you the details about protocol statistics and current TCP/IP connections using NBT
(NetBIOS over TCP/IP). Here is a small program in C# which does the exact same thing: (If you want just the
exe, let me know via a comment here and I'll send you the executable.)
1 // No copyrights(c). Use as you wish!
2
3 using System;
4 using System.Diagnostics;
5 using System.Net;
6 using System.Net.NetworkInformation;
7 using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
8 using System.Text;
9
10 namespace Yours.Truly
11 {
12 // *************************************************************************
13 /// <summary>
14 /// A class to get the MAC address from IP address. The same class can be
15 /// modified a little to get the MAC address from the specified hostname.
16 /// </summary>
17 public class GetMacAddressFromIPAddress
18 {
19 /// <summary> Ping timeout (in ms) </summary>
20 private const int PING_TIMEOUT = 1000;
21
22 // *********************************************************************
23 /// <summary>
24 /// Initializes a new instance of <see cref="GetMacAddressFromIPAddress"/>.
25 /// </summary>
26 public GetMacAddressFromIPAddress()
27 {
28 }
29
30 // *********************************************************************
31 /// <summary>
32 /// Gets the MAC address from specified <paramref name="IPAddress"/>
33 /// using nbtstat in hyphen (-) separated format.
34 /// </summary>
35 /// <remarks>
36 /// <para>
37 /// The same class can be modified to accept hostname and then resolve
38 /// the hostname to Ip address to get the MAC address or just pass "-a"
39 /// argument to "nbtstat" to get the mac address from hostname. If you
40 /// want to find the MAC address from only the IP address change the
41 /// switch to "-A".
42 /// </para>
43 /// <para>
44 /// The current program can resolve both hostname as well as IP address
45 /// to MAC address. The "-a" argument can actually accept both IP address
46 /// as well as hostname.
47 /// </para>
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48 /// </remarks>
49 /// <param name="ipAddress">The IP address or hostname for the machine
50 /// for which the MAC address is desired.</param>
51 /// <returns>A string containing the MAC address if MAC address could be
52 /// found.An empty or null string otherwise.</returns>
53 private string GetMacAddress(string ipAddress)
54 {
55 string macAddress = string.Empty;
56
57 if (!IsHostAccessible(ipAddress)) return null;
58 try
59 {
60 ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo();
61 Process process = new Process();
62 processStartInfo.FileName = "nbtstat";
63 processStartInfo.RedirectStandardInput = false;
64 processStartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
65 processStartInfo.Arguments = "-a " + ipAddress;
66 processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
67 process = Process.Start(processStartInfo);
68
69 int Counter = -1;
70
71 while (Counter <= -1)
72 {
73 // Look for the words "mac address" in the output.
74 // The output usually looks likes this:
75
76 // Local Area Connection:
77 //Node IpAddress: [13.15.111.222] Scope Id: []
78
79 // NetBIOS Remote Machine Name Table
80
81 // Name Type Status
82 // --------------------------------------------
83 // SAMGLS0790W <00> UNIQUE Registered
84 // SAMPLS0790W <20> UNIQUE Registered
85 // NA <00> GROUP Registered
86
87 // MAC Address = 00-21-70-2B-A5-43
88
89 Counter =
90 macAddress.Trim().ToLower().IndexOf("mac address", 0);
91 if (Counter > -1)
92 {
93 break;
94 }
95 macAddress = process.StandardOutput.ReadLine();
96 }
97 process.WaitForExit();
98 macAddress = macAddress.Trim();
99 }
100 catch (Exception e)
101 {
102 // Something unexpected happened? Inform the user
103 // The possibilities are:
104 // 1.That the machine is not on the network currently
105 // 2. The IP address/hostname supplied are not on the same network
106 // 3. The host was not found on the same subnet or could not be
107 // resolved
108 Console.WriteLine("Failed because:" + e.ToString());
109 }
110
111 return macAddress;
112 }
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113
114 #region Getting MAC from ARP
115
116 [DllImport("iphlpapi.dll", ExactSpelling = true)]
117 static extern int SendARP(int DestIP, int SrcIP, byte[] pMacAddr,
118 ref uint PhyAddrLen);
119
120 // *********************************************************************
121 /// <summary>
122 /// Gets the MAC address from ARP table in colon (:) separated format.
123 /// </summary>
124 /// <param name="hostNameOrAddress">Host name or IP address of the
125 /// remote host for which MAC address is desired.</param>
126 /// <returns>A string containing MAC address; null if MAC address could
127 /// not be found.</returns>
128 private string GetMACAddressFromARP(string hostNameOrAddress)
129 {
130 if (!IsHostAccessible(hostNameOrAddress)) return null;
131
132 IPHostEntry hostEntry = Dns.GetHostEntry(hostNameOrAddress);
133 if (hostEntry.AddressList.Length == 0)
134 return null;
135
136 byte[] macAddr = new byte[6];
137 uint macAddrLen = (uint) macAddr.Length;
138 if (SendARP((int) hostEntry.AddressList[0].Address, 0, macAddr,
139 ref macAddrLen) != 0)
140 return null;
141
142 StringBuilder macAddressString = new StringBuilder();
143 for (int i = 0; i < macAddr.Length; i++)
144 {
145 if (macAddressString.Length > 0)
146 macAddressString.Append(":");
147
148 macAddressString.AppendFormat("{0:x2}", macAddr[i]);
149 }
150
151 return macAddressString.ToString();
152 } // end GetMACAddressFromARP
153
154 #endregion Getting MAC from ARP
155
156 // *********************************************************************
157 /// <summary>
158 /// Checks to see if the host specified by
159 /// <paramref name="hostNameOrAddress"/> is currently accessible.
160 /// </summary>
161 /// <param name="hostNameOrAddress">Host name or IP address of the
162 /// remote host for which MAC address is desired.</param>
163 /// <returns><see langword="true" /> if the host is currently accessible;
164 /// <see langword="false"/> otherwise.</returns>
165 private static bool IsHostAccessible(string hostNameOrAddress)
166 {
167 Ping ping = new Ping();
168 PingReply reply = ping.Send(hostNameOrAddress, PING_TIMEOUT);
169 return reply.Status == IPStatus.Success;
170 }
171
172 // *********************************************************************
173 /// <summary>
174 /// The netry point for the application.
175 /// </summary>
176 /// <param name="args">An array of command line arguments.</param>
177 [STAThread]
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178 static void Main(string[] args)
179 {
180 bool macRequired = true;
181 while (macRequired)
182 {
183 Console.WriteLine("Enter the IP address for which mac address is " +
184 "required:(Enter exit to quit the program.)");
185 string ipAddress = Console.ReadLine();
186 StringComparer cp = StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase;
187 if (cp.Compare(ipAddress, "Exit") == 0) break;
188
189 GetMacAddressFromIPAddress getMacAddress =
190 new GetMacAddressFromIPAddress();
191
192 Console.WriteLine("Please wait while I try to find the MAC
address...");
193 // You may also use the ARP table. Call GetMACAddressFromARP here
194 string MacAddress = getMacAddress.GetMacAddress(ipAddress);
195
196 Console.WriteLine(MacAddress);
197 } // end while
198 }
199
200 } // end class GetMacAddressFromIPAddress
201
202 } // end namespace Yours.Truly
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Jacques August 17, 2009 at 12:41 PM
Very good post...so simple yet exactly what I needed.
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Anonymous August 4, 2010 at 6:37 AM
Thank you, it is a very interesting post.
Anyway i wish you used pure C# code for netbios, without using the external OS tool.
Bye.
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Anonymous January 21, 2011 at 8:47 AM
I don't know if you have tried this in Windows 7, but it won't work for some reason. I keep getting a
Win32Exception more or less telling me that it cannot find nbtstat even though it's in the Path and I
know it's there.
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Ryan Nalls January 23, 2013 at 7:31 AM
add this line above line 60:
string filePath = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Windows) +
"\\sysnative";
then modify the call like this:
62 processStartInfo.FileName = filePath + "\\nbtstat.exe";
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Hey nice post. Please send me exe file .
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Please send me this *.exe I need desperately for a project I'm working on where I really want to
avoid having to Hostname>IP>Mac if I can go Hostname>Mac will save me days of work. thanks.
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Anonymous March 4, 2013 at 4:12 PM
Horrid ... using output from a command line to do something like this... what if the output changes
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with the next release of windows? ... anyway a much better way of doing this is here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1148778/how-do-i-access-arp-protocol-information-through-
net have a look at the bit where it says: This is an example of the GetIpNetTable
Kris
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Anonymous April 9, 2013 at 1:04 AM
Please send me this project and executable file as well to nnwhlaing@hotmail.com. thanks.
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Silvester Norman July 16, 2013 at 2:13 AM
Oh My God !
Such a complex code to find the mac address of network adapter. Not even the technical person
would like this complex code.
Thanks
Silvester Norman
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jhay ar delos reyes September 30, 2013 at 5:00 PM
great job master .. can i have the exe ? please email me easztilloh_o7o1@yahoo.com
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ahmet March 24, 2014 at 2:55 AM
Windows 8 ?
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