How to find MAC address of computer on windows 7,8 XP
How to know the address MAC (Media
Access Control) of your computer? This
information is required for certain operations such as taking remote control.
MAC stands for: “Media Access Control”. This is
the address of a network card and it is specific to each network device and it
is encoded in hexadecimal. It is located in layer 2 of the OSI model (interconnecting
computer networks) or TCP / model IP (Internet), and is fixed during
manufacture.
You can find the MAC address of any computer on windows 7 or
8 by using command “ipconfig /all”.
Open command prompt by typing cmd in run
and then type ipconfig /all, this will show you the all address of
network card that are attached with your PC. You can see your MAC address under
the title “physical address”.
Find MAC Address on a Cisco VoIP Phone:
Following are the simple steps for locating the MAC
address on a VoIP device.
1.
Open the phone settings or press
the Settings button on the VoIP phone.
2.
By using buttons and
softkeys on the IP phone, select Network Configuration.
3.
Enter into Network
Configuration.
There, you will find the MAC Address appears
option.
Find MAC address of Cisco router interface:
Each Ethernet interface on a router will have a MAC
address (as opposed to some other layer-2 transport interface). The MAC
address used will vary based on the hardware platform and/or configuration.
You can find the MAC address by using command “show interfaces <interface-name>”e.g.
show interfaces fastEthernet 0/0
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