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Windows: Command to Find MAC Address

Windows: Command to Find MAC Address

August 23, 2018 by Mitch Bartlett 7 Comments

You may need the MAC Address of your network card to connect to a network secured using MAC Address Filtering. Here’s how to find it using a command in Microsoft Windows.

Option 1

  1. Hold down the “Windows Key” and press “R“.
  2. Type “cmd“, then press “Enter“.
  3. Type “ipconfig /all” and press “Enter“.

The “Physical Address” is listed, that is the MAC Address of your network card


Option 2

Use this method to obtain the MAC Address of your local computer as well as query remotely by computer name or IP Address.

  1. Hold down the “Windows Key” and press “R“.
  2. Type “CMD“, then press “Enter“.
  3. You can use one of the following commands:
    • GETMAC /s computername – Get MAC Address remotely by Computer Name
    • GETMAC /s 192.168.1.1 – Get MAC Address by IP Address
    • GETMAC /s localhost – Get local MAC Address
      using the getmac command

Each network card in your computer has its own MAC address. A typical modern will normally have an Ethernet card, a WiFi card and a Bluetooth card. Each one will have its own MAC address. That’s why you might see three different MAC addresses in the output of ‘getmac’.

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Filed Under: Windows Tagged With: Windows 10

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Comments

  1. Daniel says

    July 24, 2020 at 6:53 am

    Thank you man!
    It helped me a lot!

  2. MitBacon says

    June 8, 2020 at 7:48 pm

    Nice, nerds didn’t get the macNcheese reference.

  3. Mitch Bartlett says

    July 18, 2019 at 8:54 am

    Firewall on the remote computer may be blocking it.

  4. Andrew says

    July 18, 2019 at 8:49 am

    Can anybody tell me why this isn’t working?

    `C:\Users\fugmana>getmac /s aroni-and-cheese
    ERROR: The RPC server is unavailable.`

    Thanks.

  5. AndreyT says

    March 29, 2018 at 2:03 am

    Each network card in your computer has its own MAC address. A typical modern portable computer will normally have an Ethernet card, a WiFi card and a Bluetooth card. Each one will have its own MAC address. That’s why you might see three different MAC addresses in the output of ‘getmac’.

    It is even worse with ‘ipconfig /all’ since it will also display various “virtual” adapters, which might have their own MAC addresses. This is why it is better to use ‘getmac’ instead. The latter only shows “real” (physical) cards.

  6. Mitch Bartlett says

    February 5, 2018 at 7:52 pm

    Multiple network adapters. Wifi, wired, virtual, etc.

  7. Shashi Dubey says

    February 4, 2018 at 8:26 pm

    Sometimes a user get three MAC addresses after typing the command GETMAC in command line .

    Could you explain the reason for this

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