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scottchiefbaker
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13 years ago

Determining mac address and connection type (wired/wireless)

I've found GetDeviceEsn(), but I'm hoping I to get some more information out of my app. I'd like to pull out connection type (wired vs wireless), and also the mac address of the ethernet port. Is ther...
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scottchiefbaker
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13 years ago
Mac addresses are guaranteed to be globally unique. All the rest of our infrastructure is based on MAC addresses: STBs, Modems, Routers, etc. Roku will be the exception. Now I have to have different code to handle Roku than my existing code.

Ultimately I want to use it for STB authentication.