Just a question About MAC address

[Kam]

Hi all,

I'm currently developping an application on Windows platform.
In the startup I need to retrieve the MAC address.
Therefore I'm using SNMP to achieve it and to ensure that it will work on
almost all Windows versions.

But, when I disabled the network through the "Control Pane/Network...", the
function call did not return anything. Well, for me it seems to be normal...
But although I'm not really experienced with networking, I thought that the
network adapter is still inside
my machine, so why I can't retrieve it anyway ?
Is there a another to do that ?


Regards,

Kam

 

[Madhur Ahuja]

Hello

When you disable the network adapter, the OS behaves as if LAN Adapter is
not present inside your system. If your program will receive the MAC
address, then what's the use of disabling the LAN Adapter.

Madhur Ahuja
India