Sys_GetMac

Owned by Martin Gudme Søndergaard
May 23, 2022

Sys_GetMac(sIP)

Tries to resolve the Mac address for the given IP by ping and ARP cache lookup.
If successfull, the MAC address is returned in gsValue, otherwise gsValue returns empty string.

Arguments

ARGUMENT

DESCRIPTION

TYPE

sIP

The IP address to resolve into a mac address

String

Return Type

Boolean, TRUE if function completed successfully.

Remarks

Example

The following example will try to resolve the mac address for the default gateway.

Private Function IncludeScript(sScriptFile)
 '...
End Function

'Begin
  bStatus=True
  If bStatus Then bStatus=IncludeScript("customlib.cis")
  If bStatus Then bStatus=IncludeLibrary("Capalib.cin")
  If bStatus Then bStatus=IncludeLibrary("Osdlib.cin")
  If bStatus Then bStatus=Job_Start("WS","Script Name","1.0","ScriptName.log","INSTALL")
  If bStatus Then bStatus=OSD_Initialize()

  If bStatus Then bStatus=Net_GetAdapterInfo()
  If bStatus Then bStatus=Reg_GetString("HKLM","SOFTWARE\CapaSystems\CapaInstaller\Client\Inv","DefaultGateway",false)
  If bStatus and gsValue <> "" Then sGatewayIP=gsValue
  If bStatus Then bStatus=Sys_GetMac(sGatewayIP)
  If bStatus and gsValue <> "" Then bStatus=Dialog_ShowInformation("Your default gateways mac address is: " & gsValue)
  
  Job_End(bStatus)
'End main

See Also

IncludeScript function, Net_GetAdapterInfo, Dialog_ShowInformation