MAC Address

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Your MAC address is an address that uniquely identifies your computer's network card or cards.

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Finding your MAC Address

There are numerous ways of finding your MAC address.

Navigate (in Finder) to Applications -> Utilities -> Network Utility it's listed as "Hardware Address". Or open System Preferences and click the Network icon at the top of the window to see a list of your network interfaces; double click on whichever you want.

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Ethernet

  • Navigate to the last tab called Ethernet and see Ethernet ID, that's your MAC address.
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AirPort

  • The first tab is called AirPort contains AirPort ID with your AirPort card's MAC address.
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Using the Terminal

Open Terminal and type ifconfig to see your network interface information. Try the following to only get your MAC address or addresses returned 

ifconfig | grep ether
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Network interfaces without MAC Addresses

  • Bluetooth
  • Dial-up Modem
  • IP over Firewire
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