TCP connection to MAC address

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Hello,

I would like to convert to following process to code. Any advice is
welcome.

I have a hardware device which requires the this procedure to set it's
IP address. First create an static ARP entry for the device's MAC
address and the desired IP address. Then telnet to this IP address on
TCP port 1. This will set the device to temporarily respond to that IP
address. Now you can use HTTP to access the device's web interface and
explicitly set it's IP address.

Basically it looks like creating a TCP connection on port 1, based on
MAC address instead of IP address, then a normal TCP connection on port
80 to do an HTTP POST and set the IP address. The first step may be a
little more involved, since the IP address will have to be included
somewhere.

Please excuse any stupid/misinformed questions - I'm completely new to
C#, and .net for that matter (coming from a VB6 background). I'm
currently using the 2005 Express edition, if that makes any difference.

Regards,
Nicolas

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