Finding true hardware MAC Address?

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ali.jan

Hi,

ipconfig doesn't do it. I just changed the Locally Administered Address
in my network card properties and now ipconfig /all is showing the
changed mac address!

I need to find the true hardware mac address. Is there a command or
software to do this? I need a solution for both win98 and winxp.

Is there any way to do this?

Thanks...

Regards,
Ali
 
Hi,

ipconfig doesn't do it. I just changed the Locally Administered Address
in my network card properties and now ipconfig /all is showing the
changed mac address!

I need to find the true hardware mac address. Is there a command or
software to do this? I need a solution for both win98 and winxp.

Is there any way to do this?

Thanks...

Regards,
Ali
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I guess arp -a won't help you either. Perhaps this is a q for
windows programmers(the types that write SW to change a MAC). There are
newsgroups for windows programming.

comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32

maybe a VB newsgroup too.

There are many posts in that win32 newsgroup related to programming
it.Maybe somebody wrote a utility to do it. So you can get a 3rd party
command.
 
ipconfig /all | more

should give you the physical address, which is also the MAC address.
 
ipconfig /all | more

should give you the physical address, which is also the MAC address.
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If the Universally Administered Address (ie the one burned into the BIOS at
manufacture) has been changed to a Locally Administered Address, by using a
vendor supplied utility, "ipconfig /all" will show the LAA. To see the UAA,
you'll have to run the vendor utility again.

If the network device is using an LAA, Windows has no way of finding out.
 
Chuck said:
If the Universally Administered Address (ie the one burned into the BIOS at
manufacture) has been changed to a Locally Administered Address, by using a
vendor supplied utility, "ipconfig /all" will show the LAA. To see the UAA,
you'll have to run the vendor utility again.

If the network device is using an LAA, Windows has no way of finding out.
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and if the vendor's utility can do it then so can anybody elses utility
can. It's a matter of knowing some specifics about the card., maybe the
specifics are documented too and/or already known to many programmers.
 
Yves said:
ipconfig /all | more

should give you the physical address, which is also the MAC address.
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You didn't read his post. He tried that

as chuck said.

ipconfig /all doesn't give the UAA when an LAA one has been given. He
wants the UAA MAC Address..
 
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