CCNA LAB: determine the MAC address of your PC (HOST)

In this lab we will learn how to find MAC address of your PC. This is very basic lab and only uses one command to do this task.

What is MAC address?

Every computer on an Ethernet local network has a Media Access Control (MAC) address that is burned into the Network Interface Card (NIC). Computer MAC addresses are usually displayed as 6 sets of two
hexadecimal numbers separated by dashes or colons. (example: 15-EF-A3-45-9B-57).


Resources required for Lab:

• Windows XP workstation with at least one Ethernet network interface card (NIC)

Steps to perform:

1. From the Windows XP desktop, click Start then Run
2. Type cmd in the Run dialogue box then click OK.




3. in command prompt window type ipconfig /all



4. press enter



Look for physical address in output, that physical address will be your MAC address.