find a computer with the mac address Report

Victor J. Canny D.

Abstract: For change mac address, mac address spoofing or scan mac address, please refer http://amac.paqtool.com . This article discuss how to find a computer with the mac address.

1 Mac address Introduction

Mac address, short for Media Access Control address, is a hardware address that uniquely identifies each node of a network.

It means, in a local area network (LAN) or other network, the MAC (Media Access Control) address is your computer's unique NIC number. (On an Ethernet LAN, it's the same as your Ethernet address.) When you browser the Internet with your computer (or host as the Internet protocol thinks of it), a correspondence table relates your IP address to your computer's mac address on the LAN. This table often organized by your computer's router or your ISPs.

The MAC address is used by the Media Access Control sublayer of the Data-Link Layer (DLC) of telecommunication protocols. There is a different MAC sublayer for each physical device type. The other sublayer level in the DLC layer is the Logical Link Control sublayer.

2 find a computer with the mac address.

Step 1. download amac address change and install it.

Step 2. Using amac address change to scan the mac addresses on the net.

Step 3. Exports the mac address-computer list to a txt file.

Step 4. Search proper mac address within this txt file.

Step 5. OK. If you find the proper mac address, you will find the computer. If not, the computer is not on your net range.

 

3 Conclusion

a-mac address change works good on all windows system and better meeting the using of spoofing mac address.

Reference:

1. A-mac address change, http://amac.paqtool.com

2. What is mac address?, http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/MAC_address.html

3. Wireless lan mac address spoofing, http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2003/Jan/0195.html

4. change my mac address software, http://amac.paqtool.com