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Originally Posted by 2MuchMark
MAC Addresses are known in a LAN (Local Area Network) environment. For example, you can tell your wireless router to accept a connection from your wireless computer by allowing only its MAC address to connect. However this MAC address is not available via a WAN, or Wide Area Network because it is simply not transmitted as a part of any tcp/ip packet.
You can read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_address |
You read WIKIPEDIA articles for your info?
The MAC address does not need to be available on a WAN . . . all that is needed is the IP address. Once that is available, only a SECURE system would prevent someone (or someone's software) from obtaining the MAC address.
This is common knowledge.