>>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.
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>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).

I will try this out later this week as I am in WebConnect training with Rick Strahl right now.