How can I get the MAC and the IP address of a conn

Question

I need to know the MAC and the IP address of the connect clients, how can I do this in PHP?

Answer 1

You can do this easily using openWRT. If yo use a captive portal you can mix php and openWRT and make a relation between the IP and the mac.

You can write a simple PHP code using:

 $localIP = getHostByName(getHostName()); 

Later, using openWRT you can go to /tmp/dhcp.leases, you will get something with the form:

 e4:a7:a0:29:xx:xx 10.239.3.XXX DESKTOP-XXX 

There, you have the mac, the IP address and the hostname.

Answer 2

For windows server I think u can use this:

<?php
echo exec('getmac');
?>

Answer 3

under linux using iptables you can log to a file each request to web server with mac address and ip. from php lookup last item with ip address and get mac address.

As stated remember that the mac address is from last router on the trace.

Answer 4

Server IP

You can get the server IP address from $_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'].

Server MAC address

For the MAC address, you could parse the output of netstat -ie in Linux, or ipconfig /all in Windows.

Client IP address

You can get the client IP from $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']

Client MAC address

The client MAC address will not be available to you except in one special circumstance: if the client is on the same ethernet segment as the server.

So, if you are building some kind of LAN based system and your clients are on the same ethernet segment, then you could get the MAC address by parsing the output of arp -n (linux) or arp -a (windows).

Edit: you ask in comments how to get the output of an external command - one way is to use backticks, e.g.

$ipAddress=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$macAddr=false;

#run the external command, break output into lines
$arp=`arp -a $ipAddress`;
$lines=explode("\n", $arp);

#look for the output line describing our IP address
foreach($lines as $line)
{
   $cols=preg_split('/\s+/', trim($line));
   if ($cols[0]==$ipAddress)
   {
       $macAddr=$cols[1];
   }
}

But what if the client isn't on a LAN?

Well, you're out of luck unless you can have the client volunteer that information and transmit via other means.

Answer 5

In windows, If the user is using your script locally, it will be very simple :

<?php
// get all the informations about the client's network
 $ipconfig =   shell_exec ("ipconfig/all"));  
 // display those informations   
 echo $ipconfig;
/*  
  look for the value of "physical adress"  and use substr() function to 
  retrieve the adress from this long string.
  here in my case i'm using a french cmd.
  you can change the numbers according adress mac position in the string.
*/
 echo   substr(shell_exec ("ipconfig/all"),1821,18); 
?>

Answer 6

You can get MAC Address or Physical Address using this code

$d = explode('Physical Address. . . . . . . . .',shell_exec ("ipconfig/all"));  
$d1 = explode(':',$d[1]);  
$d2 = explode(' ',$d1[1]);  
return $d2[1];

I used explode many time because shell_exec ("ipconfig/all") return complete detail of all network. so you have to split one by one. when you run this code then you will get
your MAC Address 00-##-##-CV-12 //this is fake address for show only.