matt11601 Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 I did ipconfig /all on my PC and it said the Physical Address is all zero's.....is that correct? I thought all Mac Addresses were a combination of numbers and letters. The other PC's on my network are all like that. Can anyone help? -Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsweb Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 Your reading there ip address not there mac address i think, which still is not possible to be 0 on all of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt11601 Posted August 12, 2004 Author Share Posted August 12, 2004 I don't think so cause there is a separate line for "Physical Address" and a separate line for "IP Address" My Ip address is fine as it is the one assigned by my server after I reserved it so I still don't know why my Physical Address reads 00-00-00-00-00-00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EZRecovery Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 Where it says Description when you do ipconfig /all, do you have a NIC name in there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e4ymod Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 are you running linux? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hell-In-A-Handbasket Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 also are you shure your not lookign at your Dial-Up Modem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt11601 Posted August 12, 2004 Author Share Posted August 12, 2004 I'm running Win XP Pro, I don't have a modem installed and my NIC does have a name...it's a 3Com Etherlink that's a PCI card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EZRecovery Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 @matt11601, check if you have Internet Protocol TCP/IP installed Are you replying to us using the computer that doesnt show the MAC address? Windows 2000 / NT/XP (Home and Pro): * Click Start / Run, then type CMD in the run box and press enter. * Type in ipconfig/all at the prompt and press the Enter key. * On the screen displayed locate the line labeled * Host Name - this is your computer name (you may need to scroll up to view) * Physical Address - The number to the right of this is your physical address. Note: An example of a valid address is 00-09-73-AF-CA-1C. (NOTE: if you see all zero this is not a valid address and you will need to pick a different network card) Source: How to locate the Physical Address Linux command is ifconfig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hell-In-A-Handbasket Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 are you running linux? linux i think is either IFconfig or Lfconfig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt11601 Posted August 12, 2004 Author Share Posted August 12, 2004 Yes, the computer the I am using to type this message is the comp w/o a MAC Address. My Host name is correct as it reads "basement" and this is the name I use to identify it on the network You think I need a new NIC Card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EZRecovery Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 (edited) You probably do, try this. Go to command prompt window and type: getmac See what you get edit: from command prompt also try this: arp -a Source: CodeGuru: Three way to get your MAC Address An interesting way to discover what MAC addresses you know of other people on your network is to type ARP -a in a command prompt and you should get a listing that is similar to this. Interface: 192.168.1.102 --- 0x2 Internet Address Physical Address Type 192.168.1.1 00-20-78-d9-5c-b3 dynamic 192.168.1.100 00-50-ba-b3-55-ec dynamic 192.168.1.101 00-a0-cc-7a-7d-6d dynamic Edited August 12, 2004 by EZRecovery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turge2000 Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 What about if you do an "nbtstat -a <machinename>" from the command prompt? Does it give you the MAC address at the bottom? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt11601 Posted August 12, 2004 Author Share Posted August 12, 2004 typing nbtstat -a <machinename> gives me a MAC ADDRESS but it's all zeros typing getmac gives me all zero's typing arp -a gives me MAC ADDRESSES but for my router and my server man this is one frustrating problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pirateXP Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 For some NICs you can set the MAC address in the device manager ('Advanced' tab). There is also a freeware tool (forgot the name) which allows you to change your MAC address. Anyway I wouldn't worry about it as long as you don't have another NIC like that in your network. Since you are behind a router and everything works fine you don't really need a valid(unique) MAC address. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt11601 Posted August 12, 2004 Author Share Posted August 12, 2004 Well see I am wondering if this is causing some problems...I currently cannot FTP to my XBOX from this machine (but I can with other comps on the network) and I cannot use EZShare with my ATI AIW card to share the TV accross the network Edit: Since i couldn't ftp to my xbox or share TV on the network I started checking my system for something that may be wrong and this is when I found that I don't have a MAC ADDRESS and was wondering if this was the problem related to my xbox and sharing tv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pirateXP Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 Try this tool to change your MAC address. Maybe that solves your problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EZRecovery Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 See if this link helps you.....XBOX.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted August 12, 2004 Veteran Share Posted August 12, 2004 Copy the output of ipconfig here (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt11601 Posted August 13, 2004 Author Share Posted August 13, 2004 Thanks guys for the tools, I was able to change it to something else -Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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