Get only ethernet MAC-address via command prompt - windows

Question

I use 'ipconfig /all' or 'getmac /v' to get all NIC physical addresses.
But the problem is, generally a computer has more than one NIC card. Also, there are some virtual MAC addresses like Microsoft virtual wifi hotspot NIC which shows only when wifi hotspot is on.
So, how can I collect only the address corresponding to ethernet via cmd?

Answer 1

This command fetches MAC addresses of physical ethernet network devices:
wmic path Win32_NetworkAdapter where "PNPDeviceID like '%PCI%' AND AdapterTypeID='0'" get name, MacAddress
if you want to fetch virtual ones as well then use this:
wmic path Win32_NetworkAdapter where "AdapterTypeID='0'" get name, MacAddress
or this one for fetching all the MAC addresses of all network devices:
wmic path Win32_NetworkAdapter get name, MacAddress
Just in case you are interested how it works:
We are using WMIC tool provided by Windows to fetch adapter info from Win32_NetworkAdapter.
Then filter ethernet adapters by AdapterTypeID=0 as 0 corresponds to ethernet type.
Finally filter physical devices with PNPDeviceID like '%PCI% since they are attached to PCI.
You might also want to look at the result of whole Win32_NetworkAdapter and play with it with this command:
wmic path Win32_NetworkAdapter

Answer 2

I advise to you use powershell because very powerful than cmd
Get-CimInstance win32_networkadapterconfiguration | select description, macaddress | where {$_.MACAddress -ne $n
ull }
output :
description macaddress
----------- ----------
RAS Async Adapter 20:41:53:59:4E:FF
Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller 18:03:73:65:64:AB
VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet1 00:50:56:C0:00:01
VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet8 00:50:56:C0:00:08
that command in powershell select all macaddress for device enable your machine that included vmware but we can do more filter for example
Get-CimInstance win32_networkadapterconfiguration | select description, macaddress | where {$_.MACAddress -ne $n
ull } | where {$_.Description -match "Realtek" }
output:
description macaddress
----------- ----------
Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller 18:03:73:65:64:AB
but if your just run in cmd you should encode this command in powershell like this
$script={ Get-CimInstance win32_networkadapterconfiguration | select description, macaddress | where {$_.MACAddr
ess -ne $null } | where {$_.Description -match "Realtek" } }
[System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetBytes( $script))
output encoded command for use in cmd
IABHAGUAdAAtAEMAaQBtAEkAbgBzAHQAYQBuAGMAZQAgAHcAaQBuADMAMgBfAG4AZQB0AHcAbwByAGsAYQBkAGEAcAB0AGUAcgBjAG8AbgBmAGkAZwB1AHI
AYQB0AGkAbwBuACAAfAAgAHMAZQBsAGUAYwB0ACAAZABlAHMAYwByAGkAcAB0AGkAbwBuACwAIABtAGEAYwBhAGQAZAByAGUAcwBzACAAfAAgAHcAaABlAH
IAZQAgAHsAJABfAC4ATQBBAEMAQQBkAGQAcgBlAHMAcwAgAC0AbgBlACAAJABuAHUAbABsACAAfQAgACAAfAAgAHcAaABlAHIAZQAgAHsAJABfAC4ARABlA
HMAYwByAGkAcAB0AGkAbwBuACAALQBtAGEAdABjAGgAIAAiAFIAZQBhAGwAdABlAGsAIgAgAH0AIAA=
in cmd i use this and get mac
powershell -encodedcommand IABHAGUAdAAtAEMAaQBtAEkAbgBzAHQAYQBuA
GMAZQAgAHcAaQBuADMAMgBfAG4AZQB0AHcAbwByAGsAYQBkAGEAcAB0AGUAcgBjAG8AbgBmAGkAZwB1A
HIAYQB0AGkAbwBuACAAfAAgAHMAZQBsAGUAYwB0ACAAZABlAHMAYwByAGkAcAB0AGkAbwBuACwAIABtA
GEAYwBhAGQAZAByAGUAcwBzACAAfAAgAHcAaABlAHIAZQAgAHsAJABfAC4ATQBBAEMAQQBkAGQAcgBlA
HMAcwAgAC0AbgBlACAAJABuAHUAbABsACAAfQAgACAAfAAgAHcAaABlAHIAZQAgAHsAJABfAC4ARABlA
HMAYwByAGkAcAB0AGkAbwBuACAALQBtAGEAdABjAGgAIAAiAFIAZQBhAGwAdABlAGsAIgAgAH0AIAA=
output:
description macaddress
----------- ----------
Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller 18:03:73:65:64:AB

Answer 3

#ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL enabledelayedexpansion
FOR /f "delims=" %%a IN ('getmac /v ^|find /i "local area conn" ') DO (
FOR %%b IN (%%a) DO (
SET element=%%b
IF "!element:~2,1!!element:~5,1!!element:~8,1!"=="---" set mac=%%b
)
)
ECHO found %mac%
GOTO :EOF
This should provide the information required, but it would have been better had you provided sample output from your machine as your experience may not be exactly reproduced on others' installations.

Answer 4

on commandline:
for /f %i in ('wmic nic get MACAddress ^|find ":"') do #echo %i
or
for /f %i in ('getmac^|find "-"') do #echo %i
for use in a batchfile, use %%i instead of %i

Answer 5

To only get the active network card's MAC-address using Powershell:
(Get-WmiObject win32_networkadapterconfiguration -ComputerName $env:COMPUTERNAME | Where{$_.IpEnabled -Match "True"} | Select-Object -Expand macaddress) -join ","

Answer 6

You can try this :
netsh interface ip show addresses "Ethernet"