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jcvalle

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jul 8, 2008
14
1
Conwy, Wales
I'm not sure if this is the right forum to place this question is but it's as close as I can find.

My question is, is there a way to locate the MAC address of a device on a shared network I set up via my MacBook. It would look something like this..

I'm getting internet via Ethernet to my MacBook, I would then share my internet through the Airport, which is how my Blu-ray player would get internet. I'm trying to find the MAC address of my Blu-ray player.

I know it seems really weird to do the wireless internet to my Blu-ray how I'm doing it, it's a long story..but is there anyway to view device information on my MacBook of devices that are using my shared internet?

Thanks for any help!
 

Winni

macrumors 68040
Oct 15, 2008
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Germany.
Open Terminal and use the arp command with the IP address of the BluRay device, for example:

arp 192.168.0.100

arp is used to determine the MAC address behind an IP address or hostname.
 

jcvalle

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jul 8, 2008
14
1
Conwy, Wales
thanks for your reply, I did what you said and got the mac address of..

0:23:8:71:53:68

but from my knowledge of MAC addresses, aren't they supposed to be xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, six series of two digit numbers? any thoughts?
 

yg17

macrumors Pentium
Aug 1, 2004
15,028
3,003
St. Louis, MO
thanks for your reply, I did what you said and got the mac address of..

0:23:8:71:53:68

but from my knowledge of MAC addresses, aren't they supposed to be xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, six series of two digit numbers? any thoughts?

arp drops any preceding zeros, so the MAC is 00:23:08:71:53:68
 
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