I??™d be interested in knowing whether
you use any of these older commands. If you do, feel free to contact me at
JMueller@mwt.net
.
Getting the Media Access Control Information with the
GetMAC Utility
Every network adapter has a Media Access Control (MAC) address. The address is unique for every
network adapter across all vendors. The output from this utility consists of the network adapter
MAC address and the transport name associated with it. You don??™t gain much in the way of additional
information. However, the MAC address is central to all kinds of monitoring activity, including
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sniffing packets on your network (the act of filtering the packets and viewing the ones of interest).
This utility uses the following syntax:
GETMAC [/S system [/U [domain\]user [/P [password]]]]
[/FO {TABLE | LIST | CSV}] [/NH] [/V]
The following describes the command line arguments.
/S
system
Specifies the remote system that you want to check. In most cases, you??™ll also need
to supply the
/U
and the
/P
command line switches when using this switch.
/U [
domain
\]
user
Specifies the username on the remote system.
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