>I can not believe there is no 100% reliable way to read the MAC address from a netcard because WinIPCFG on Win9x machines will do it right every time. The equivalent utility on NT/2K does it reliably as well.


I put together a .dll this weekend that extracts the MAC and the IP address(es)
from the SNMP object tree. This method should work with every Windows flavor,
although I've only tested it on W95 OSR2.1 and W2K Professional. I'd appreciate
any feedback on how it works with any other version (especially XP).