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* Mac Address
@ 2006-09-02 20:42  Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha <ezequias.rocha@gmail.com>
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From: Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha @ 2006-09-02 20:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-sql

Hi list,

It is possible to retrieve the MAC Address of a computer using a Postgresql
function like others:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/functions-info.html

I can retrieve a ip of some statement connection but I didn't find how to
get the MAC Address. Is it possible ?


Regards
Ezequias

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* Re: Mac Address
@ 2006-09-02 22:34  Milen A. Radev <milen@radev.net>
  parent: Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha <ezequias.rocha@gmail.com>
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread

From: Milen A. Radev @ 2006-09-02 22:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-sql

Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha написа:
> Hi list,
> 
> It is possible to retrieve the MAC Address of a computer using a Postgresql
> function like others:
> 
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/functions-info.html
> 
> I can retrieve a ip of some statement connection but I didn't find how to
> get the MAC Address. Is it possible ?

No - the client and the server communicate using TCP/IP as
transport/internet layer but that does not mean they use Ethernet as
network access layer.


-- 
Milen A. Radev




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* Re: Mac Address
@ 2006-09-02 23:24  Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
  parent: Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha <ezequias.rocha@gmail.com>
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread

From: Bruno Wolff III @ 2006-09-02 23:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha <ezequias.rocha@gmail.com>; +Cc: pgsql-sql

On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 17:42:29 -0300,
  Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha <ezequias.rocha@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> It is possible to retrieve the MAC Address of a computer using a Postgresql
> function like others:

MAC Addresses are generally only transferred within a subnet and you aren't
going to be able to get them in the general case.

> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/functions-info.html
> 
> I can retrieve a ip of some statement connection but I didn't find how to
> get the MAC Address. Is it possible ?

What is it that you are really trying to accomplish? There might be some
other solution than having to get the mac address of a remote computer.



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* Re: Mac Address
@ 2006-09-03 07:07  Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net>
  parent: Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha <ezequias.rocha@gmail.com>
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread

From: Andreas Kretschmer @ 2006-09-03 07:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-sql

Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha <ezequias.rocha@gmail.com> schrieb:

> Hi list,
> 
> It is possible to retrieve the MAC Address of a computer using a Postgresql
> function like others:

In the same subnet? Then you can use untrusted languages such as plperlu
or plsh to retrieve the MAC for a IP. (arp -a ip)

Btw.: please no HTML in eMails.


HTH, Andreas
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