The Physical Address should be in format M:M:M:S:S:S.
To find MAC Address, see the instructions given below for popular operating systems. It may be interesting for you to know that all the OUIs are registered and assigned to the manufacturers by IEEE. 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.
OUI is always the same for NICs manufactured by the same company. 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). There are several NIC manufacturers some well-known of them are Dell, Cisco, Belkin. 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. 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. MAC Address usually consists of six groups of two hexadecimal digits. It identifies the hardware manufacturer and is used for network communication between devices in a network segment. It is also known as a physical or hardware address. MAC Address or media access control address is a unique ID assigned to network interface cards (NICs). 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. 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. The MAC Address vendor database consists of a list of mac addresses of all devices manufactured till date.
The correct node for would be Use this node's alias or add a reasonable one yourself if missing.Īttention: Note that label MAC addresses are assigned relatively randomly by vendors, so label-mac-device should be regularly put into DTS files or DTSIs with few users, so it is not inherited by accident.MAC Address Lookup Tool searches your MAC Address or OUI in mac address vendor database. If you find the label MAC address here, check your DTS for the corresponding parent node. There may be one, two or no paths giving the correct address. Valid choices are only mac-address or local-mac-address. It will give you a list like the each of the returned paths (if there are any), retrieve the mac-address, e.g. To check whether there actually is a usable MAC address, check the device tree on your router:įind /proc/device-tree/ -name "*mac-address"Īttention: This will only work if you have already set up MAC addresses correctly based on the information retrieved above. Obviously, this is only valid if the 5 GHz Wifi device tree node actually has been named wifi0.Īttention: Not all interface can be referenced this way. For that purpose, one needs to reference the node with an alias, e.g.
We can refer to the device bearing the label MAC address in DTS.