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

All you need to do is to put arp into diferrent group.

Default:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 48K 2008-11-11 18:11 /usr/sbin/arp*

With command:

sudo chown root:www-data /usr/sbin/arp

you will get:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root www-data 48K 2008-11-11 18:11 /usr/sbin/arp*

And because apache is a daemon running under the user www-data, it's now able to execute this command.

So if you now use a PHP script, e.g.:

<?php
$mac = system('arp -an');
echo $mac;
?>

you will get the output of linux arp -an command.

Answer 2

Use this class (https://github.com/BlakeGardner/php-mac-address)

This is a PHP class for MAC address manipulation on top of Unix, Linux and Mac OS X operating systems. it was primarily written to help with spoofing for wireless security audits.

Answer 3

The MAC address of a client (in the sense of the computer that issued the HTTP request) is overwritten by every router between the client and the server.

Client IP is conveniently provided to the script in $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']. In some scenarios, particularly if your web server is behind a proxy (i.e. a caching proxy) $_SERVER['REMOTE ADDR'] will return the IP of the proxy, and there will be an extra value, often $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'], that contains the IP of the original request client.

Sometimes, particularly when you're dealing with an anonymizing proxy that you don't control, the proxy won't return the real IP address, and all you can hope for is the IP address of the proxy.

Answer 4

I don't think you can get MAC address in PHP, but you can get IP from $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] variable.

Answer 5

// Turn on output buffering  
ob_start();  

//Get the ipconfig details using system commond  
system('ipconfig /all');  

// Capture the output into a variable  
$mycomsys=ob_get_contents();  

// Clean (erase) the output buffer  
ob_clean();  

$find_mac = "Physical"; 
//find the "Physical" & Find the position of Physical text  

$pmac = strpos($mycomsys, $find_mac);  
// Get Physical Address  

$macaddress=substr($mycomsys,($pmac+36),17);  
//Display Mac Address  

echo $macaddress;  

This works for me on Windows, as ipconfig /all is Windows system command.

Answer 6

You can use the following solution to solve your problem:

$mac='UNKNOWN';
foreach(explode("\n",str_replace(' ','',trim(`getmac`,"\n"))) as $i)
if(strpos($i,'Tcpip')>-1){$mac=substr($i,0,17);break;}
echo $mac;