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If your Linux OS does not have the ifconfig command, you may also use the ip addr command.The MAC address will be listed next to HWaddr.

Open a terminal and use the ifconfig command.Instructions to properly identify the MAC address for each corresponding Operating System is listed below:

Letters must also be capitalized on the form. Please always include the colons ( :'s) between the numbers. On Windows it will sometimes be represented with dashes between the numbers. The physical (MAC) address is an 8 byte number such as 08:00:20:9A:38:34. For that reason, the MAC address of a machine is required so that it can be properly configured for the engineering network. The MAC address is used to assign the TCP/IP address by means of DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protcol).

This is the actual hardware address that the lowest level of the network uses to communicate. We can further filter results by issuing one more grep having something like 192.168 for local IP ifconfig | grep inet | grep 192.Every network interface has a MAC address (Media Access Controller) also known as the physical address. We have to specify the following arguments to get your ip ipconfig getifaddr en0Īlternatively you can also retrieve IP using following command(it is ifconfig not ipconfig) ifconfig | grep inet Unlike Windows, If you type ipconfig in Terminal, you will end up with something like this ~/Desktop$ ipconfig usage: ipconfig where is one of waitall, getifaddr, ifcount, getoption, getpacket, getv6packet, set, setverbose If we want to get more details, it is possible via Terminal.