I am using OS X 10.10.4 and when I run reaver -i mon0 -b XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX -vv I get the following error - Failed to retrieve a MAC address for interface 'mon0'! Failed to retrieve the MAC address. 8 years 8 months ago #321 by osl. Hi, Modelio needs an active eth0 interface. Here's what you can do: (tested on Ubuntu 10.04, but. Since your mac address have changed you no longer have an interface called eth0, this name is reserved for an interface with the 'old' mac-address. The 'new' interface should have the next free name (eg. To see all the interfaces on the machine you can use this command: ifconfig -a. Type 'arp -a' in the command prompt. This lists a number of MAC addresses with the associated IP addresses. Since you have the MAC address, scroll down the list to find the associated IP address. The MAC address is shown in the 'Physical Address' column with the IP address in the 'Internet Address' column. An example of a table record is in Step 4. The Network Interface MAC address is changing after each reboot. How to assign a permanent MAC address to the bonding interface in RHEL? Force the bond interface to take a MAC address of the slave. Resolution Assigning permanent MAC address for an Ethernet interface. Please keep in mind that ethX style naming will not work on Rhel 7.
We can find mac address (physical address) of a computer using the command ‘getmac‘. This can be used to get mac address for remote computers also. Below are few examples on how to use this command. It works on XP, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2003 and Server 2008 operating systems.
Get mac addresses from CMD
Just run the command getmac to get the mac addresses. Find an example below.
This command does not show mac addresses for the network connections which are disabled. You can run ncpa.cpl and check which NICs are disabled. Further, I have received comments that this command does not help identify the mac address for a specific device. For example, if I need to get the mac address for my WiFi card, output of getmac command is not helpful. We can use ipconfig command to deal with this.
Get mac address of a remote computer
We can retrieve the mac addressses for a remote computer using nbtstat command. Example:
Alternatively, We can run the below command to retrieve the mac addresses of a remote computer.
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remote_computer : Full name of the remote computer or IP address username and password are of the account on the remote computer.
Example:
If you do not want to specify the password, you can skip /p parameter. You will be prompted to enter the password and the command execution will take place after that.
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Errors:
Using getmac command we can retrieve the mac addresses of the machines running windows OS only. If you try this for a Linux machine you would get the error “The RPC server is unavailable.”
If you provide incorrect password, the command would fail with the error message “Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.”