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To get the MAC address use one of the commands given below appropriate to your operating system. Sometimes, you have to look for the MAC address in the output.

Windows
command prompt %> getmac
or
command prompt %> ipconfig /all

MacOS X
terminal %> system_profiler SPNetworkDataType | grep "Ethernet Address"

Solaris
terminal %> /usr/sbin/arp `uname -n`

Irix
terminal %> /etc/nvram eaddr

HPUX
terminal %> /usr/sbin/lanscan -a | cut -d"x" -f2

Redhat Linux
terminal %> /sbin/ifconfig -a | grep "Ethernet"

Finding MAC Address remotely

This might or might not work depending on tcp_wrapper, firewall settings and other factors.

Windows <-> Windows
command prompt %> getmac /s computername

UNIX <-> everything
terminal %> /path/to/arp -a hostname

Tools with Graphical Interface

Symantec Ghost Console (Reporting)
Apple Remote Desktop

[1] MAC address, short for Media Access Control address, a 48 bit hardware address that uniquely identifies each node of a network. In IEEE 802 networks, the Data Link Control (DLC) layer of the OSI Reference Model is divided into two 24 bit sublayers: the Logical Link Control (LLC) layer and the Media Access Control (MAC) layer. The MAC layer interfaces directly with the network medium. Consequently, each different type of network medium requires a different MAC layer.

Vendors making network-ready equipment ensure that every machine in the world has a unique MAC address: 24 bit prefixes for MAC addresses are designed to hardware vendors, and each vendor is responsible for uniqueness of the lower 24 bits. The broadcast MAC address is ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff. All network interfaces recognize this wildcard MAC address as a broadcast address, and pass the packet up to a higher-level protocol handler.

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