Obtain Mac Address of a local machine

[Momo]

Anybody have an idea on how to obtain more information regarding mac address from a local machine by using vb 2005. What I means here is I need to know either the mac address is a "loopback" type or is the "real" mac address in my machine.
Thanks.

 

[jmcilhinney]

How are you getting the MAC addresses now? I would think that you'd use the Win32_NetworkAdapter WMI class and get its AdapterType property.

 

[Momo]

I use system.management class which is what u mentioned and get the mac address but some of the local machine I get 2 mac address due to another one of it is "loopback" mac address which for software localhost usage. How I am going get the target local machine mac address?
tq

 

[jmcilhinney]

If I use WMI to get all Win32_NetworkAdapter objects in my system I get about 5 or 6. Have you tested the AdapterType property of each one? What do they report? What do some of the other properties report? Is there an obvious way to differentiate them through one of those properties?