MAC Address

I want to set up some policies on my wireless routers and put some time schedules in for operation. I can do this by IP or by MAC address. IP's change but MAC's don't so I would like to do it by MAC address. However, I am having problems finding the MAC address of some computers. From a DOS command I can do a "getmac" command and it comes up on my computer but none of the others. I went into help on each of the other computers and it does not tell me a command or how to find the MAC. Does anyone here know how to find the MAC on computers. I am looking for the MAC of the computer.

murph

IF you are running Windows 2000 or XP:

Go to your Start Menu and select Run ...
From that dialog box, type CMD
Now, from the Command Window type ipconfig /all

You should find your physical address from that dump.

Thanks Gator, I was doing the "ipconfig" without the "all" and was only getting the IP address.


murph

Gatorboy said:

IF you are running Windows 2000 or XP:

Go to your Start Menu and select Run ...
From that dialog box, type CMD
Now, from the Command Window type ipconfig /all

You should find your physical address from that dump.

Click to expand...

and if it scrolls off the screen, type ipconfig /all|more that will give you a screen full at a time.

Jim

PS - the vertical bar is the pipe symbol. Its upper case of the backslash on a lot of keyboards.

I can see it in one screen. Can you do a command to see all the MAC's using your router? I know of "netstat" but that does not do it.


murph

What kind of router? The ones I have used have a screen that shows who is attached, including their MAC.

First you have to log into the router; there isn't a command like netstat that will pull that info from the router.

It is a Linksys WR54G. I can get into it but I have not found a place that shows anything other than it's own IP, MAC and connection IP.

murph

Do you have a DHCP Client List in your routers screen? All of the computers that have signed in through my router have the IP address and MAC address listed there.