Finding the Mac address of RPi

Raspberry Pi
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Hello Team,

Is there an easy way of getting the Mac address of the Raspberry Pi?
I would need it to setup an access to restricted network.

Thank you very much!
Benjamin

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I don’t really know but one way might be … if you have a serial console cable attached to th PI, you might be able to do “ifconfig eth0” to find it.

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Fluffy’s answer is correct. You can also say ip link show eth0 and look for “brd”.

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Thank you both! I was able to get the MAC address.

Benjamin

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If it helps anyone, I have noticed that the wifi interface MAC address is the same as the MAC address advertised during the setup phase.

With a tool such as Wi-Fi Explorer you do not only see the SSID farmbot-abcd but you can also see its MAC address (MAC address of the AP): b8:27:eb:xx:xx:xx
The first 3 groups of characters (b8:27:eb) represent the OUI for Raspberry Pi; the rest of the characters are unique for your RPi.

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Does anyone have a quick way to get the wired raspberry pi MAC address?

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The WebApp will show you . . click on the version number to get a nice pop-up.
Take the last 6 hex chars of Node name: as the xx in the full MAC address b8:27:eb:xx:xx:xx

In my case, this is d7f390

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I think that is the WiFi MAC.
I need the Ethernet MAC in order to have the school IT folks open the network to this node. ( so I need it in order to be able to access the web tool. Kind of a cart before the horse thing.
My thought is to just temporarily bring a small wired router out to the plot, set up a lan between my laptop & the FB, and tap into the router and see if I can get the FB Ethernet MAC from the router. I was just wondering if I could do it without having to go that route.

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During the network selection step of configuration, you can press the small info icon beneath the network icon to view network interface details, as described in the documentation.

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No it’s not the Wi-Fi MAC address, it’s always the last 3 octets of the Ethernet MAC address.
( that 64-bit number is the Raspberry Pi Serial which is published in /proc/cpuinfo )

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@Gabriel
Just as you ( and the documentation) said, the MAC addresses are there for the world to see!
Thank you!
(And I will try to do a better job of R’ing the FM… (Reading the Fricking Manual) before posting next time) :slight_smile: