I'm trying to find the MAC address for my network printer using cmd.
I've tried using nbtstat -a (ipaddress) and it says host not found. But the IP works when I ping it. Is there another command that can pull the information for me?
Mac – Obtain MAC Address from network printer via CMD
cmd.exemac addressnetwork-printer
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Having the same MAC address appear several times is not necessarily a problem. The mapping is one-way: from IP address to MAC address. The ARP table is the way through which the OS knows the MAC address which should be used to send a packet to a machine with a given IP address. If a given machine assumes several IP addresses simultaneously (or in close succession), all with the same hardware interface, then you will get several entries with the same MAC. While this is supported and not, in itself, a problem, this might indicate something fishy in your case.
The "redirect host" messages are traces of ICMP Redirect packets. Namely, a machine claiming to have IP address 10.100.100.130 is reacting to your "ping" request, and tells to your machine "hey you, 10.100.100.125, when you want to talk to 173.246.99.7, you should send the packet to router 10.100.100.1". Presumably, your machine sent the request to another gateway address, which worked (since the target host responded). Use netstat -rn to display your current routing table.
These messages seem to indicate that you have two routers on the local network. This is unusual. There again, this is not a lethal issue (the Internet was designed to be redundant with several paths from any two points) but may indicate some configuration problem, or possibly an ongoing (and inexpert) attack attempt (one of the other systems trying to redirect the traffic of the other hosts to itself).
The plain and simple truth is: This is not possible in current versions of VirtualBox. The reason can be easily understood when looking at the driver’s source code:
pAdapter->MacAddr.au8[0] = 0x08 | 2; // DB: computes to 10 == 0x0A
pAdapter->MacAddr.au8[1] = 0x00;
pAdapter->MacAddr.au8[2] = 0x27;
pAdapter->MacAddr.au8[3] = (uIfIndex >> 16) & 0xFF;
pAdapter->MacAddr.au8[4] = (uIfIndex >> 8) & 0xFF;
pAdapter->MacAddr.au8[5] = uIfIndex & 0xFF;
It simply uses the interface index to create a MAC address. This index is managed by Windows and provided to the driver at initialization in the NDIS_MINIPORT_INIT_PARAMETERS structure.
You can easily inspect the index in the route print command:
===========================================================================
Interface List
10...c0 7c d1 c0 37 71 ......Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
13...0a 00 27 00 00 0d ......VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter
...
13 equals 0x0D, and that’s the MAC address.
Best Answer
In Windows, if you know the printer's IP address, you can use "ping" and "arp /a" to find the same information. You will need to do some searching. If you don't mind clearing your DNS cache with "ipconfig /flushdns" the list will be shorter.