[Closed] MAC address?

Sep 15, 2010 10:09 pm

I have been looking at code on the web in c# and just have not been able to reproduce it in Max script. Any one know how to get the MAC address of the system?

6 Replies

alapanttiK

Sep 15, 2010 10:09 pm

Are you looking to do it in pure MXS or are you open to dotNet?

There is this function posted by feilang on this page:

feilang:

HI,this is my final function,it will return the mac address with capital letter such as u find it in CMD with “ipconfig /all” command.Amazing dotnet,i’v got a lot to learn:)

fn fl_getMacAdressByDotNet = (
     upperStr="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
    lowerStr="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
    NWIF = dotnetClass "System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkInterface" 
    the_Mac_array = NWIF.GetAllNetworkInterfaces() -- this is an array of all the Networks 
     the_Mac_Address = "" --The Mac Address with capital letter 
    the_Hex_Array = #() -- Emty Array to hold the Bytes after converted to hex
    for i = 1 to the_Mac_array.count do
     (
      The_Physical_Address = the_Mac_array[i].GetPhysicalAddress() -- Get The Physical Address of all the networks 
      The_Physical_Address_Bytes  = The_Physical_Address.GetAddressBytes() as array -- Get The Physical Address Bytes 
   	for foo in The_Physical_Address_Bytes do 
      (
   	tempHex = bit.intashex foo -- convert to hex
      if tempHex.count == 2 then 
      (
   	if (idx = findString lowerStr tempHex[1]) != undefined then  tempHex[1] = upperStr[idx]
   	if (idx = findString lowerStr tempHex[2]) != undefined then  tempHex[2] = upperStr[idx]
   	the_Mac_Address += tempHex
      )
      else 
      (
   	if (idx = findString lowerStr tempHex) != undefined  then  tempHex = upperStr[idx]
   	the_Mac_Address += "0" + tempHex
      )
      )
     )
     -- call the Mac Address
     the_Mac_Address
    )

PEN

Sep 15, 2010 10:09 pm

Always happens, I poke at something for ages and as soon as I post I get it.

	ni=dotNetClass "System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkInterface"
	penDotNet.show ni
	ni.GetIsNetworkAvailable()
	all=ni.GetAllNetworkInterfaces()

	MACAddress=all[1].GetPhysicalAddress()
	for a in all do print ((a.GetPhysicalAddress()).toString())

PEN

Sep 15, 2010 10:09 pm

Thanks Kevin, not sure why I didn’t get that when I did a search.

PEN

Sep 15, 2010 10:09 pm

Unless I’m missing something Kevin what I have is a whole lot simpler. The code you posted is converting int values to hex to string instead of just using toString()

alapanttiK

Sep 15, 2010 10:09 pm

Yeah your method is much more concise, I think the one I posted was made in an older version of max. The other suggestion was to compile a dll in C, but I still prefer the method you came up with here. Good to see you found what you needed.

PEN

Sep 15, 2010 10:09 pm

Well I don’t think that the older version would make any difference as the toString method would have still been there.