Well, you're out of luck unless you can have the client volunteer that information and transmit via other means. Create videos with exciting video effects, titles, audio tracks. #look for the output line describing our IP address OpenShot is an award-winning free and open-source video editor for Linux, Mac, and Windows. #run the external command, break output into lines So, if you are building some kind of LAN based system and your clients are on the same ethernet segment, then you could get the MAC address by parsing the output of arp -n (linux) or arp -a (windows).Įdit: you ask in comments how to get the output of an external command - one way is to use backticks, e.g. The client MAC address will not be available to you except in one special circumstance: if the client is on the same ethernet segment as the server. You can get the client IP from $_SERVER Client MAC address Additionally, on Windows, this will send a UDP packet to 1.1.1.1:53 to attempt to determine the. Server MAC addressįor the MAC address, you could parse the output of netstat -ie in Linux, or ipconfig /all in Windows. Get MAC addresses of remote hosts and local interfaces. You can get the server IP address from $_SERVER.