How can I get access to the {route, ARP, interface, etc.} table?
Stas Khirman and Raz Galili have written a great tutorial on the art of using the poorly-documented SNMP API. This API allows you to access many “hidden” parts of the Windows networking subsystem, including the network interface list, the route and ARP tables, the list of connected network sockets, your Ethernet cards’ hardware addresses, etc. 4.7 – How do I get the MAC (a.k.a. hardware) address of the local Ethernet adapter? This FAQ has example code for two hackish methods and one complex but reliable method. The first method involves asking the NetBIOS API for the adapter addresses. This method will fail on systems where NetBIOS isn’t present, and it sometimes gives bogus answers. There is a second method that depends on a property of the RPC/OLE API. This property is documented but not guaranteed to do what we want, and in fact it fails in a number of situations. (Details in the example program’s commentary.) As a result, I have to recommend that you give this method a miss. The th
