Hey my android connect commuicates with a special device.
The remote device is connected to my home network as well as the android device. They communicate via a socket. How can I find out the mac adress of that device now?
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Found it by myself: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5240706/detecting-android-devices-connected-to-wifi – softwaresupply Nov 05 '11 at 17:03
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The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is what maps ethernet addresses (the MAC address) to IP addresses (the 192.168.2.115 one). You can examine your devices arp table using the arp command. For instance:
% adb shell arp -a
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
fox.home.network (192.168.0.1) at 00:0x:yz:00:01:00 [ether] on eth0
You can also use snmp to examine the routing tables on routers on your network to fetch arp/ip maps quite often.
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Yes but I needit it programmatically by the app not by console. You can parse /proc/net/arp for it. – softwaresupply Nov 08 '11 at 09:35
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A socket does not provide access to MAC addresses. You need the device's IP address on the network in order to communicate with it.
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Actually i got it. Its 192.168.2.115, so its local. What can I do next? – softwaresupply Nov 05 '11 at 15:22