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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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scyber
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13 years ago
I'd also point out that MAC addresses aren't guaranteed to be unique b/c it is very easy to change the mac address of an ethernet adaptor on a variety of platforms (not the Roku, but almost any platform with root access). Using mac address for authentication seems like a risky proposition.