getting mac address with .net

Hi, I would like to be able to retrieve the MAC address of the first networkcard in a pc.

I found some information which might be usefull on http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...tion.networkinterface.getphysicaladdress.aspx

There in the system.net.networkinformation.networkinterface namespace I found some information and also a c# piece of code.


public static void DisplayTypeAndAddress()
{
IPGlobalProperties computerProperties = IPGlobalProperties.GetIPGlobalProperties();
NetworkInterface[] nics = NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces();
Console.WriteLine("Interface information for {0}.{1} ",
computerProperties.HostName, computerProperties.DomainName);
foreach (NetworkInterface adapter in nics)
{
IPInterfaceProperties properties = adapter.GetIPProperties();
Console.WriteLine(adapter.Description);
Console.WriteLine(String.Empty.PadLeft(adapter.Description.Length,'='));
Console.WriteLine(" Interface type .......................... : {0}", adapter.NetworkInterfaceType);
Console.WriteLine(" Physical Address ........................ : {0}",
adapter.GetPhysicalAddress().ToString());
Console.WriteLine(" Is receive only.......................... : {0}", adapter.IsReceiveOnly);
Console.WriteLine(" Multicast................................ : {0}", adapter.SupportsMulticast);
Console.WriteLine();
}
}



Could somebody please help me out a little to convert this to a valid unity .CS script so I can start exploring the wonderfull world of .NET (which unfortunately I don't know a lot about at this moment so I wanna learn)



10000000 thanks for any possible help

Bart

 

While Unity uses .NET, the implementation is restricted to the classes in the Mono class library. Most of the classes described on the MSDN documentation aren't available in Unity, and I think that applies to what you are looking for here.

 

well .NET reflector did seem to find the namespace in the unity3d dlls.

What IF unity does know that namespace? Would you know how I could access it?


regards,

Bart

 

Sorry, you're quite right - I've found it now.

You can use these classes by qualifying them with the full namespace path (ie, System.Net.NetworkInformation..., etc) or by adding another "using" line at the start of the file:-

Code (csharp):

1. using System.Net.NetworkInformation;

 

Sorry in advance for the following stupid question, but I never accessed .NET stuff from unity3d or any other programming language before.


Could you please be so kind to tell me how I could write that little script so that if I atach it to a GameObject it just writes the mac address to the console?

I guess its not a lot of lines of code, but I really don't have a clue how to begin at it (because I never did such a thing before) and it would be a good start for me to learn more about accessing .NET functionality from unity3d scripts.

Kind regards,

Bart

 

tnx Duck

Returns also 0 nics here

Strange, no ?

 

For OS X deployment, here is a free plugin someone made:
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/32207-Free-Plugin-gets-Serial-Number-or-MAC-address-from-OS-X.

 

Hey guys! I found the solution. This code works on MacOS and on iOS. I haven't tested on Android.

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. // Returns the 1st valid Mac Address
3. function GetMacAddress(){
4.     var macAdress = "";
5.     var nics : NetworkInterface[] = NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces();
6.    
7.     var i = 0;
8.     for (var adapter: NetworkInterface in nics){
9.         var address: PhysicalAddress = adapter.GetPhysicalAddress();
10.         if(address.ToString() != ""){
11.             macAdress = address.ToString();
12.             return macAdress;
13.         }
14.     }
15.     return 0;
16. }
17.  

Cheers! Good Luck on your project!