About MAC Address Lookup
The MAC Address Lookup is used to find the real manufacturer or vendor OUI (Organizationally Unique Identifier) of your network card based on your network card MAC address. It also allows you to find MAC address records according to the company name.
Apple gives the Mac a clever way to peek at the contents of files on the computer without having to launch the applications that created or can otherwise open those files. More than living up to its moniker, Quick Look lets you look at a file as a pretty decent-size thumbnail or even full-screen. There are a few reasons why you'd like to know how to find your MAC address. Perhaps you're setting up your router and you'd like to filter out some devices out of your network for extra security.
FAQ
MAC address (Media Access Control address) is a unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications on the physical network segment. It usually encodes the manufacturer’s registered identification number.
If you want to find the manufacturer a certain MAC address belongs to, enter your full MAC address or first 6 hexadecimal digits. This tool support most of the common formats such as 00-10-fa-c2-bf-d5, 00:10:fa:c2:bf:d5, 0010.fac2.bfd5, 00 10 fa c2 bf d5, or 0010fac2bfd5.
If you want to find a list of MAC address prefixes based on the manufacturer, simply enter the full or part of the company name, for example, apple or Apple Computer, Inc. The string entered into the tool is case-insensitive.
The data source of the MAC address database used in this tool is from IEEE[1].
If you want to generate a random MAC address, please use our MAC address generator tool.
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References
We can find mac address (physical address) of a computer using the command ‘getmac‘. This can be used to get mac address for remote computers also. Below are few examples on how to use this command. It works on XP, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2003 and Server 2008 operating systems.
Get mac addresses from CMD
Just run the command getmac to get the mac addresses. Find an example below.
This command does not show mac addresses for the network connections which are disabled. You can run ncpa.cpl and check which NICs are disabled. Further, I have received comments that this command does not help identify the mac address for a specific device. For example, if I need to get the mac address for my WiFi card, output of getmac command is not helpful. We can use ipconfig command to deal with this.
Get mac address of a remote computer
We can retrieve the mac addressses for a remote computer using nbtstat command.
Example:
Example:
Alternatively, We can run the below command to retrieve the mac addresses of a remote computer.
remote_computer : Full name of the remote computer or IP address
username and password are of the account on the remote computer.
username and password are of the account on the remote computer.
Example:
If you do not want to specify the password, you can skip /p parameter. You will be prompted to enter the password and the command execution will take place after that.
Errors:
Using getmac command we can retrieve the mac addresses of the machines running windows OS only. If you try this for a Linux machine you would get the error “The RPC server is unavailable.”
If you provide incorrect password, the command would fail with the error message “Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.”
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Also Read:
Windows CMD commands reference
Windows CMD commands reference