How do i get client's MAC address?

[hunt1012]

I want to know client's MAC address.

If WOWZA is streaming to iPhone, i want to know iPhone's Wi-Fi Mac Address, etc...

I used SystemUtils.getMACAddress()... but failed...

How do i get client's MAC address?

[rogerlittin]

I don't think you can. It is probably available in lower level tcp functions but not in the wowza api.

[shamrock]

unless the client is on the same LAN as the server then the server will not know the MAC address, or be able to get it.

You are obviously after some functionality or identification, perhaps letting us know what you are trying to do and there may be an alternative method.

Shamrock

[adamsat]

Dear All,

how are you doing, I am new to the streaming word, but I have a project to stream channels over internet (IPTV) to STB, how we can control access of those STB, its good idea to do it through the mac address because its unique

Regards

[rrlanham]

I don't know of a way to involve a mac address in security. Are you doing RTSP streaming to this STB? Or cupertino?

For RTSP:
http://www.wowza.com/forums/content....TSP-RTP-stream

For cupertino, take a look at this example:
http://www.wowza.com/forums/content....tinostreaming)

Richard

[adamsat]

Hi Richard,

sorry for the late response, but I was struggling to understand their method, they pass the mac address as a unique key in the url, for example [http://www.testserver.com/test/check...=001122334455] then they have an algorithm which will check if you are authorize or not (they check the mac address against a file or database) , if you are authorize you will get the URL list as XML (inside this URL list will have wowza media server url)

can i do the same with PHP, can i send the mac address with the url and do the same

regards

[rrlanham]

If your server (php) application can append a mac address to rtsp url (if that is what you are using in the STB) using querystring, then Wowza can look at in onRTSPSessionCreate:

http://www.wowza.com/forums/content....TSP-RTP-stream

Richard