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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.

Your MAC Address is listed under 'Physical Address' as a series of 6 groups of two digits, letters and numbers, separated by dashes, such as in the image below. Make sure you get the physical address of the correct network adapter - usually there are several listed. Figure - MAC Address ipconfig command. Figure - MAC Address ipconfig command result. Sh mac address-table interface gigabitEthernet x/x. Then on layer 3 device to resolve it to ip address take the mac from above and run. Show ip arp x.x.x.

Get mac addresses from CMD

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Just run the command getmac to get the mac addresses. Find an example below.

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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.

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  • Switch# show mac-address-table include Fa0/5. Or if you know the mac address and want to know which port the mac address is coming from, use the following command. Switch# show mac-address-table include 0009.aabb.06e9. With the above command, one can figure out which Mac address is on which port of catalyst switch. Only ports which have a.
  • On Windows 10, you can find this information more quickly than you could on previous.

Get mac address of a remote computer

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We can retrieve the mac addressses for a remote computer using nbtstat command.
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.

Example:

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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.”

Also Read:
Windows CMD commands reference