Use the Microsoft Live API to locate the physical coordinates of a MAC address.

Posted by detokaal on Sunday July 31, 2011 @12:51PM
from the elie.im dept.

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Re:Use the Microsoft Live API to locate the physical coordin... by molecule on Sunday July 31, 2011 @01:27PM (#2828899)

Or not. "Results: MAC address not found in the Live database"

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Re:Use the Microsoft Live API to locate the physical coordin... by rjbond3rd on Sunday July 31, 2011 @03:57PM (#2829373)

It wants the MAC of a public wifi access point (rather than one's own MAC).

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Re:Use the Microsoft Live API to locate the physical coordin... by coin on Sunday July 31, 2011 @01:48PM (#2828964)

It can't handle MAC address in lowercase. Lame..

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Re:Use the Microsoft Live API to locate the physical coordin... by pacaro on Sunday July 31, 2011 @04:17PM (#2829423)

Indeed, and requires : seperators when - is common too.

Hint, on a Windows machine "arp -a" will print the MAC addresses of the machines on the local subnet.

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