#How to check mac address on linux how to#
#How to check mac address on linux mac#

#How to check mac address on linux mac#

You can also use another useful linux tool called ethtool to find MAC address in Linux as shown below.

#How to check mac address on linux how to#

Link/ether 08:00:27:1d:8e:54 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff Method 7: How to find MAC Address in Linux using ethtool command In this example we are checking MAC address of enp0s3 network interface. If you want to check the MAC address of some specific network interface then you need to use the interface name with ip link show command and check the MAC address from ether field as shown below. Link/ether 08:00:27:1d:8e:54 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff Method 6: How to find an ethernet MAC Address in Linux using ip link show command ~]# ip link showДЎ: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000Дў: enp0s3: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 If you want to check the MAC address of all the network interfaces then you can use another useful ip link show command and check the MAC address from link/ether field as shown below. Valid_lft 2610sec preferred_lft 2610sec Method 5: How to find MAC Address in Linux Using ip link show command If you want to check the MAC address of some specific network interface then you need to use the interface name with ip addr sh command and check the MAC address from ether field as shown below. Valid_lft 2947sec preferred_lft 2947sec Method 4: How to find an ethernet MAC Address in Linux using ip addr sh command ~]# ip addr shДЎ: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 If you want to check the MAC address of all the network interfaces then you need to simply use ip addr sh command and check the MAC address from ether field as shown below. Method 3: How to find MAC Address in Linux Using ip addr sh command Hence Please use the network interface name with all the mentioned commands as per your system interface name or else none of the command will work. Please note that you might find eth0 network interface in your system instead of enp0s3. TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 If you want to check MAC Address of all the network interfaces in Linux using our traditional ifconfig command then you need to use ifconfig -a command as shown below. It will always show in this form 00:07:Y7:1C:6L:03.ДЄlso Read: 25 Useful Linux SS Command Examples to Monitor Network Connections Method 1: How to find MAC Address in Linux Using ifconfig command It is almost used in all the Network Devices which has network controller in it. It is a unique 48 bit(6-byte) address assigned to a Network Interface. MAC is abbreviated as Media Access Control.

This is typically in-line with IEEE 802 Network technologies.

You can find the usage of MAC address in wide range of Network Devices currently in use. You might be aware of Ethernet Card/Network Card/NIC Controller which works at Network level and is responsible for communicating with other network devices in a Network Topology. In this article, I will take you through different ways to List/Get/Display/Find MAC Address in Linux.