MAC Address

  • Hello,


    As DM8000 has a LAN and WLAN adaptors, I supose everyone has its MAC Address. I can know the LAN MAC Address by typing in a MS-DOS window arp -a, but how can I know the WLAN MAC Address?


    It is requiered to connect to my router with MAC Address filtration. When I disable MAC Address filter I can connect without problems but I am interested in improve the access to my dreambox.


    Best regards

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    The MAC should be printed on a little sticker at the back of the box.


    Otherwise just connect via telnet and type in "ifconfig -a"
    There should be something like this:

    The xx-xx-xx-part should be your MAC address.
    Last chance, open the box, look at the wifi-adapter :smiling_face:

    Grüße,
    Olove

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  • Just switch of mac- protection on your router, let the box connect and then read the max from the webinterface of the router. It should list ot somewhere in the list of connected devices....

  • Many thanks


    As I think there are two MAC address, one for WLAN adaptor and other for LAN adaptor.


    Best regards

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    wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx

    Even though the first six bytes of the "HWaddr" of wifi0 are equal to the wireless MAC address by default, the better way to get the MAC address is by looking at ath0 instead of wifi0.


    Code
    ip addr show dev ath0

    or

    Code
    ifconfig ath0


    To get the addresses of the wired interface, use

    Code
    ip addr show dev eth0

    or

    Code
    ifconfig eth0


    To get a list of all interfaces and their addresses, use

    Code
    ip addr

    or

    Code
    ifconfig -a


    The ethernet address is labeled "link/ether" or "HWaddr".

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    Thanks for clarification! :smiling_face:

    Grüße,
    Olove

    "All we need to do ... is keep talking (Stephen Hawking)"


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