Every network adapter has what is called a Media Access Control address that uniquely identifies it. Think of it as an ID. Having to manually go to every computer on the network, and taking the time ...

In order to create a DHCP reservation, you need to know the MAC address of the computer. The MAC address is a unique link-layer address that identifies a network interface on a computer, and MAC ...

I think you need to supply more details...<BR><BR>Are you trying to do the name/ip lookup on some other machine than the one whose MAC address you have? <BR><BR>The translation between IP and MAC ...