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Mac Address with NetwareX extender

Keywords:      Mac Address

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Question:

With the new NetwareX extender, there isn't no more the useful function 'n4GetNetAddr' retrieving the Mac Adress. Is there an equivalent function in the new Xtender ??

Answer:

Don't rely on the Novell Client software to provide you with a MAC address. With the advent of Pure IP communications between the Novell Client and a NetWare v5.0 [or newer] server, you can have NCP over UDP instead of NCP over IPX. This means that the client addres will be an IP address & a UDP port # instead of an IPX network number, MAC address and a IPX socket #.

If you want to ignore that warning and try it anyway, use nwGetConnInfo() with Request #5 to get the workstation's network address associated with a particular connection # on a server. You *WILL* have to parse the result to see if the network address is an IPX address or a TCP/IP address before you blindly assume that it contains a MAC address component in a IPX network address.

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Article ID:   W15216

File Created: 2002:09:05:13:50:40

Last Updated: 2002:09:05:13:50:40