Re: network serial number

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 23:51

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Emmanuel wrote:

>when I test it, I find a little problem in the method 2 & 3
>in  http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,26040,00.html,
>
>Method 2- COM CUID API
>I find that it return many different results not a unique number and none of
>them is my MAC address,
>why method 2 not suitable for my case?

Did you not read the comments above the code?
<quote>
 I provide this method mostly as an example of what not to do. You may
end up with you MAC address this way, but chances are you'll just end
up with some random hex values. 
</quote>

>Method 3-Using the SNMP Extension API
>I find that there is a little typing mistake
>AsnObjectIdentifier MIB_ifMACEntAddr = { sizeof(OID_ipMACEntAddr)
>sizeof(UINT), OID_ipMACEntAddr };
>
>it shoud be  +,- *,/ between   sizeof(OID_ipMACEntAddr)  sizeof(UINT)

supposed to be number of ints, so would be
 sizeof(array) / sizeof(element)

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