Kevin Wells’ application for looking up information about MAC addresses has been updated to version 2.04, and now includes Dutch in the range of languages that can be deployed in its user interface. This joins the recently added French and German, as well as the already present English.
In case you don’t know, a MAC addresses are codes assigned to network interfaces that you’ll find in devices of all sorts that allow them to connect to and communicate with other devices locally, and often beyond – remote servers on the internet.
The addresses – twelve digit hexadecimal (base 16) numbers – allow each and every device to be identified, and within that bank of digits certain portions have certain meanings, so you can look up an address and find out information about the device’s manufacturer, for example.
MACadd provides a way to perform those lookups from the RISC OS desktop.A MAC address can be input into the software, which will then use Wget to relay it to a third party website (MAC Address Lookup), and the information sent back from the site is then reported to the user.
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