MAC of a LAN card?

Somebody please remind me....

WinXP and a PC with a wired LAN card, how to I find out the cards MAC?

Thanks in advance.

--
Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

"Harry Bloomfield" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed) k...
> Somebody please remind me....
>
> WinXP and a PC with a wired LAN card, how to I find out the cards MAC?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Harry (M1BYT) (L)
> http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

Start , run , type cmd
At the command prompt type ipconfig /all

This will give the physical addresses of all network adaptors

MJP

MJP wrote on 05/03/2009 :
> "Harry Bloomfield" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed) k...
>> Somebody please remind me....
>>
>> WinXP and a PC with a wired LAN card, how to I find out the cards MAC?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> -- Regards,
>> Harry (M1BYT) (L)
>> http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk
>
> Start , run , type cmd
> At the command prompt type ipconfig /all
>
> This will give the physical addresses of all network adaptors

Thanks, got it now :-)

I just wanted to allow its MAC in my router.

--
Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

In news:(E-Mail Removed) k,
Harry Bloomfield <(E-Mail Removed)> typed, for some
strange, unexplained reason:
: MJP wrote on 05/03/2009 :
: > "Harry Bloomfield" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
: > message news:(E-Mail Removed) k...
: >> Somebody please remind me....
: >>
: >> WinXP and a PC with a wired LAN card, how to I find out the cards
: >> MAC?
: >>
: >> Thanks in advance.
: >>
: >> -- Regards,
: >> Harry (M1BYT) (L)
: >> http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk
: >
: > Start , run , type cmd
: > At the command prompt type ipconfig /all
: >
: > This will give the physical addresses of all network adaptors
:
: Thanks, got it now :-)
:
: I just wanted to allow its MAC in my router.

Do you need to do that for a wired connection..? I've only ever used it
for wireless connections.

Ivor

"Ivor Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> considered Sat, 7 Mar 2009
00:21:21 -0000 the perfect time to write:

>In news:(E-Mail Removed) k,
>Harry Bloomfield <(E-Mail Removed)> typed, for some
>strange, unexplained reason:
>: MJP wrote on 05/03/2009 :
>: > "Harry Bloomfield" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
>: > message news:(E-Mail Removed) k...
>: >> Somebody please remind me....
>: >>
>: >> WinXP and a PC with a wired LAN card, how to I find out the cards
>: >> MAC?
>: >>
>: >> Thanks in advance.
>: >>
>: >> -- Regards,
>: >> Harry (M1BYT) (L)
>: >> http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk
>: >
>: > Start , run , type cmd
>: > At the command prompt type ipconfig /all
>: >
>: > This will give the physical addresses of all network adaptors
>:
>: Thanks, got it now :-)
>:
>: I just wanted to allow its MAC in my router.
>
>Do you need to do that for a wired connection..? I've only ever used it
>for wireless connections.
>
>Ivor
That depends on the required level of paranoia.

I've worked in environments where nothing is allowed on the lan
without it's mac address being registered, but that kind of
environment doesn't typically allow wires either.

So if you are that paranoid, use fibre.

It happens that Ivor Jones formulated :
> Do you need to do that for a wired connection..? I've only ever used it
> for wireless connections.

Its an old Belkin wireless unit up on a pole which I'm using to provide
a wifi link of 0.5km. I had set it up via a wifi link, via my main
router, then locked the Belkin down - shortly after which I added a
wired LAN cable from this PC to the main router and disabled the wifi
at this PC. I then lost all access to the Belkin completely. I was
actually on the point of bringing the Belkin down off the pole to do a
factory reset, until I found out that the far end of the link still had
its Internet access.

Not until that point did I realise that I had not included the MAC of
this PC's wired LAN card in the Belkin's list before locking it down -
which was the reason for my original question.



--
Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 00:21:21 UTC, "Ivor Jones"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> In news:(E-Mail Removed) k,
> Harry Bloomfield <(E-Mail Removed)> typed, for some
> strange, unexplained reason:
> : MJP wrote on 05/03/2009 :
> : > "Harry Bloomfield" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> : > message news:(E-Mail Removed) k...
> : >> Somebody please remind me....
> : >>
> : >> WinXP and a PC with a wired LAN card, how to I find out the cards
> : >> MAC?
> : >>
> : >> Thanks in advance.
> : >>
> : >> -- Regards,
> : >> Harry (M1BYT) (L)
> : >> http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk
> : >
> : > Start , run , type cmd
> : > At the command prompt type ipconfig /all
> : >
> : > This will give the physical addresses of all network adaptors
> :
> : Thanks, got it now :-)
> :
> : I just wanted to allow its MAC in my router.
>
> Do you need to do that for a wired connection..? I've only ever used it
> for wireless connections.

Not all routers are wired.

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