MAC Lookup Tool provides you information about any MAC Address of a networking card installed into your computer or any other device. MAC Address can be located on networking card box or through the operating system after it installs in computer. You can view your networking card MAC Address by typing ipconfig /all
in command prompt in any windows version, and the field "Physical Address" actually indicates your networking card MAC Address. Type that address here to look it up.
MAC Address Lookup Tool searches your MAC Address or OUI in mac address vendor database. The MAC Address vendor database consists of a list of mac addresses of all devices manufactured till date. Finding the mac address from this database tells us which manufacturer originally manufactured this device and what is the prefix, postfix of a given mac address, moreover it tells us what country was this device manufactured. All this information is useful if you want to verify the generated mac address with the original vendor of this device in OUI vendor database.
MAC Address or media access control address is a unique ID assigned to network interface cards (NICs). It is also known as a physical or hardware address. It identifies the hardware manufacturer and is used for network communication between devices in a network segment. MAC Address usually consists of six groups of two hexadecimal digits.
The network adapters or network interface cards always come with a MAC address which is fed into hardware, usually in read-only memory (ROM), or BIOS system. The physical address is stored into the NIC by its manufacturer, that is why this address is also called a burned-in address (BIA) or ethernet hardware address. There are several NIC manufacturers; some well-known of them are Dell, Cisco, Belkin.
The first three sets of two hexadecimal numbers in a MAC Address identifies the card manufacturer, and this number is called OUI (organizationally unique identifier). OUI is always the same for NICs manufactured by the same company. For example, let's say a network card manufactured by dell has a physical address: 00-14-22-04-25-37
, in this address, 00-14-22
is the OUI of Dell which identifies that the device is by Dell. It may be interesting for you to know that all the OUIs are registered and assigned to the manufacturers by IEEE.
To find MAC Address, see the instructions given below for popular operating systems.
cmd
and press EnterOR
cmd
and press Enteripconfig/all
and press EnterM:M:M:S:S:S
. For example: 00-14-22-04-25-37
System Preferences
System Preferences
, click View
menu and select Network
Network
window that just opened, click the Wi-Fi
, Ethernet
, or Airport
icon on left.Advanced
on bottom right.Hardware
, and look for MAC Address
field.MAC Address
should be in the format: M:M:M:S:S:S
. For example: 00-14-22-04-25-37
ifconfig -a
00-14-22-04-25-37
Settings
app.General
option in settings.About
option.Wi-Fi Address
MAC Address
should be in the format: M:M:M:S:S:S
. For example: 00-14-22-04-25-37
Settings
app.Wireless & Networks
Wi-Fi Settings
Advanced
, and your wireless network card's MAC Address should appear here.Settings
app.About Device
Hardware Info
Advanced
, and your wireless network card's MAC Address should appear here.