What is my computer's MAC address?
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Posted: 08/02/2009 8:02 PM
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Okay,
I'm currently away with the Army at the moment and as I am one of the few guys with Internet access (BigPond Wireless 10GBs baby!), some of the boys have offered to pay me a small amount for use of my Internet...
I have no problem with this, however to limit abuse of my Internet access, I want to restrict access to specific MAC addresses, which as I understand it will block any MAC addresses not on my router's "approved" list.
Therefore, if someone could please tell me how to find out a computer's MAC address in a Microsoft Windows Vista operating system, I would be most appreciative...
FYI, I have also posted this in the Mac forum because one of the users has a MacBook.
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Posted: 08/02/2009 10:02 PM
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open up command prompt and type ipconfig /all and you get a line like this
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-AA-BB-CC-DD-EE
(this address is unique to the network card utilised and each character is in hexadecimal from 0 to F)
possibly displayed with the following information (yours may be slightly different as your internal LAN and network card may be different in type and configuration)
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : computername
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection 13:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : D-Link AirPlus Xtreme G DWL-G132 Wireless USB Adapter(rev.A)
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-AA-BB-CC-DD-EE
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.1.1.2 (this is the PC internal LAN address IP V4)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::217:9aff:fec9:45be%5 (IP V6)
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.1.1.1 (router internal address)
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 203.0.178.191 (Internet Provider's DNS server)
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