Question

I am using Delphi and I want to determinate the physical MAC address of a network device in my network, in this case the Router itself.

My code:

var
  idsnmp: tidsnmp;
  val:string;
begin
  idsnmp := tidsnmp.create;
  try
    idsnmp.QuickSend('.1.3.6.1.2.1.4.22.1.2', 'public', '10.0.0.1', val);
    showmessage(val);
  finally
    idsnmp.free;
  end;
end;

where 10.0.0.1 is my router.

Alas, QuickSend does always send “Connection reset by peer #10054”. I tried to modify the MIB-OID and I also tried the IP 127.0.0.1 which connection should never fail. I did not find any useable Tutorials about TIdSNMP at Google. 🙁

Regards
Daniel Marschall

Answer 1

You can use the SendARP function to get the Mac Address.

check this sample

uses
 Windows,
 WinSock,
 SysUtils;


function SendArp(DestIP,SrcIP:ULONG;pMacAddr:pointer;PhyAddrLen:pointer) : DWord; StdCall; external 'iphlpapi.dll' name 'SendARP';


function GetMacAddr(const IPAddress: string; var ErrCode : DWORD): string;
var
MacAddr    : Array[0..5] of Byte;
DestIP     : ULONG;
PhyAddrLen : ULONG;
WSAData    : TWSAData;
begin
  Result    :='';
  WSAStartup($0101, WSAData);
  try
    ZeroMemory(@MacAddr,SizeOf(MacAddr));
    DestIP    :=inet_addr(PAnsiChar(AnsiString(IPAddress)));
    PhyAddrLen:=SizeOf(MacAddr);
    ErrCode   :=SendArp(DestIP,0,@MacAddr,@PhyAddrLen);
    if ErrCode = S_OK then
     Result:=Format('%2.2x-%2.2x-%2.2x-%2.2x-%2.2x-%2.2x',[MacAddr[0], MacAddr[1],MacAddr[2], MacAddr[3], MacAddr[4], MacAddr[5]])
  finally
    WSACleanup;
  end;
end;