How to find out your MAC address

Posted on October 1, 2009, 2:24 pm, by admin.

Please tell me how to find out MAC address, my friend ask me when we met on a training session. System administrator in his work place want to control data traffic according MAC address.

No problem, help him by doing this steps :

1. Click Start -> Run

2. Type ‘cmd’ and hit OK button.

DOS prompt window will appear, type command :

ipconfig /all

The result of that command :

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>

ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : iaji-lab
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/1000 T Server
Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 08-00-27-D1-9B-06
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.88.0.64
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 172.88.1.2
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.88.1.10
172.88.1.2

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>

Pay attention to ‘Physical Address’ section :

08-00-27-D1-9B-06

is MAC address for that network interface.