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Re: Lowest-level method to retrieve MAC address!
Posted by Arkady Frenkel on January 10th, 2006


WMI have it' own kernel part and AFAIK that DeviceIoControl is the only way
to move from
user mode IOCTL to kernel's OID ( in this case
OID_802_3_CURRENT_ADDRESS and/or OID_802_3_PERMANENT_ADDRESS )
But maybe WMI use some special api for that so ask that on
microsoft.public.win32.programmer.wmi
Arkady

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