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Hi - thank you both for your replies - SendARP looks to be the solution. However I was wondering how well SendARP would work if the PC was a virtual PC and/or if there was more than one MAC address at the IP address?<br />
Thanks
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Hi - thank you both for your replies - SendARP looks to be the solution. However I was wondering how well SendARP would work if the PC was a virtual PC and/or if there was more than one MAC address at the IP address?
Thanks

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Thanks. After much testing SendARP() proved to be a reliable solution across all MS Windows platforms.
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Thanks. After much testing SendARP() proved to be a reliable solution across all MS Windows platforms.

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Cheers, but you should mark the answer by: weifaiPosted on 2013-11-28 at 18:25:15ID: 39684014 as the answer.<br />
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Cheers, but you should mark the answer by: weifaiPosted on 2013-11-28 at 18:25:15ID: 39684014 as the answer.

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I am developing a console app that will run from the command line on a Windows 2008 R2 64 bit server. &nbsp;Using C++, what is the most reliable method of acquiring the MAC address of a remote Microsoft Windows machine using its IP address?<br />
Thanks
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Hi 
I am developing a console app that will run from the command line on a Windows 2008 R2 64 bit server.  Using C++, what is the most reliable method of acquiring the MAC address of a remote Microsoft Windows machine using its IP address?
Thanks

Remote MAC Address Using IP Address

Most development for the Microsoft platform is done utilizing the technologies supported by the.NET framework. Other development is done using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) for programs like Access, Excel, Word and Outlook, with PowerShell for scripting, or with SQL for large databases.

Microsoft Development

Networking software modules are interfaced with a framework implemented on the machine's operating system that implements the networking functionality of the operating system. The best known frameworks are the TCP/IP model and the OSI model. Systems typically do not use a single protocol to handle a transmission. Instead they use a set of cooperating protocols, sometimes called a protocol family or protocol suite.[9] Some of the best known protocol suites include: IPX/SPX, X.25, AX.25, AppleTalk and TCP/IP. Other protocols indirectly related to networking include the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) and its related technologies, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Domain Name Server (DNS) and other Internet protocols.