ICMP and Mac Address

[Anthony_Mott]

I’m attempting to write an IP Tracking program in Xojo and I need to be able to PING an IP address as well as retrieve the MAC address and hostname of that IP. Is there a native way to do this in Xojo? Shell is NOT an option. I’ve written something similar in VB2010 using an add-on OCX control.

[Christian_Schmitz]

Maybe you want to discuss with me by email a plugin to do ping?

[Norman_P]

@62461:@Anthony Mott

I’m attempting to write an IP Tracking program in Xojo and I need to be able to PING an IP address as well as retrieve the MAC address and hostname of that IP. Is there a native way to do this in Xojo? Shell is NOT an option. I’ve written something similar in VB2010 using an add-on OCX control.

You could use the OCX control in Xojo if this is for Windows only

[John_Hansen]

For windows you might be able to get an idea by using Winpcap.dll.

An example from old forum:
http://forums.realsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=31208 (http://www.rebrandsoftware.com/source/WinPCap.zip)

[Lee_Page]

Here is a link to an ICMP socket class
ICMP Socket

You can also use win API and iphlpapi.dll to query the ARP Cache Table.