Friday, 23 March 2012

How to find out Mac address in windows,mac osx,ubuntu linux


What is mac address?
Mac address is a unique address for your network devices to work in the physical platform.It is a hexadecimal address in the form of aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff

In windows how to find mac address of your network adapter


In windows 7 and vista

From the start menu search, type cmd and press enter.This will lead you to command prompt.In the command prompt type
              ipconfig /all
You can see your mac address in the physical address field
In windows xp

From the start menu select "run" and type "cmd" in the box appears and this will open the command prompt.In the command prompt type
             ipconfig /all
You can see your mac address in the physical address field


In mac osx how to find your mac address

Open the system preferences from the apple menu and click on the network button.Select your wifi connection and click on the advanced button.At the buttom you can see your mac address labeled as your "wifi address"

In ubuntu how to find your mac address

In the terminal type ifconfig and press enter.This command will list all your network devices with respective mac addresses.In the list your ethernet name will be eth0 and your wireless name eth1.

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