How to Find a MAC address in Windows, Mac & Linux

Do you want to know what’s your MAC Address (Media Access Control) of your Windows PC, Mac, or Linux then you came at the right place.

Here we’ve posted the guide that will help you to find the MAC address on Windows if you have or on MAC or in Linux PC.

The MAC address looks like this Example:  00:2f:ca:d1:2b:cf

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Let’s not waste time and get to the point.

How to Find MAC Address

As there are lots of Operating Systems are available in today’s generation that we can’t make a guide for all of that OS MAC address. So we build this tutorial for finding MAC address on Windows, Mac, Linux OS.

We have divided these 3 OS Find MAC address guide into the different section for better understanding and time-saving guide. Below is the section’s name.

1. Find MAC Address on Windows
2. Find MAC Address on Mac
3. Find MAC Address on Linux

Let’s take a look to each of them.

1: How to Find MAC Address on Windows

In this guide, We will look how can we get the MAC Address on all of Windows OS such as Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 and also on Windows Server 2000, 2003, NT, Windows 95, 98 and earlier.

Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10:

1. Click on the Start button.
2. In the search box, type cmd and open the CMD (Command Prompt),  This will open the command window.
3. At the command prompt, type: ipconfig /all and hit enter.
4. Copy the “Physical Address” (aka the MAC address) from the “Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection” section.
5. Close the command prompt window.

Windows 2000, 2003, XP, NT:

1. Click Start > Run.
2. In the Run text box, type cmd and hit enter. A command prompt window would appear.
3. At the command prompt, type ipconfig /all.
4. Copy the “Physical Address” from the “Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection” section.
5. Close the command prompt window.

Windows 95, 98 and earlier:

1. Click Start > Run. A command prompt window appears.
2. Type: winipcfg.
3. Click OK.
4. Copy down the “Adapter Address” (the MAC address).
5. Close the command prompt window.

2: How to Find MAC address on Mac

In this guide, We are going to take a look the way to find the MAC address on Mac OS X. So let’s take a look at the guide.

Macintosh OS 10.4 and higher:

1. From the Apple icon in the upper left-hand corner of the desktop, select System Preferences.
2. From the Internet & Wireless section, select Network.
3. From the AirPort menu, click Advanced.
4. At the bottom of the AirPort tab, the MAC address is listed as AirPort ID.  Copy the twelve digits alphanumeric string.
5. To exit, click the Cancel button of the AirPort info, then click on the red button in the upper left corner of the Network window.

Macintosh OS (10.3.5):

These instructions may also work for some earlier OS.

1. From the Apple Menu at the top left of the desktop, select System Preferences > Network.
2. Select Show: Built-in Ethernet in the pull-down menu.
3. Click Ethernet.
4. Your adapter’s MAC address is the characters in Ethernet ID.

3: How to Find MAC address on Linux/Unix.

Let’s get to the section of Linux or Unix. Finding the MAC address varies across the different Linux/Unix operating systems.

In many systems, the following command will return the MAC address:

ifconfig -a

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