How to check mac address in router password#

(ETA: What if you can't get to the Console port? How do you get the IP address of the switch in order to SSH or (if you must) Telnet in?)Ĭouldn't you just use CDP? #show cdp nei detail will show you the ip of the connected devices.

The amazing thing to me is, this far into the 21st Century, this is still the only way I could find to get this information - i.e.

Also, 'sh ip arp | i 0/24' will show just the MAC address(es) on that port.) If you're all Cisco, 'show cdp neighbor' (or 'sh cdp nei') will get you to the next switch. (Small tip: When you see a large number of MAC addresses showing up on a single port, there's a switch on that port into which those MAC addresses are connected. Alternatively, you can log into the router or switch to view your MAC Address if your router or switch shows up in Network Explorer, you can right click it then click Properties. It helps to Ping the subnet's broadcast address (e.g. For devices such as your router or switch, normally the physical address can be found on the back of the device label. Step 3 Click Status on the left side, and then you can see the MAC address on the LAN section.

How to check mac address in router password#

Step 2 Type the username and password in the login page, the default username and password both are admin.

:^D After beating Google to death over it, hoping for some useful tool, I ended up using exactly the same process (plus the online MAC address lookup to ID the device manufacturer), so I can affirm this works perfectly, if you work it.Īs you can see, the 'sh arp' or 'sh ip arp' commands also give you the MAC addresses, so essentially the 'sh mac add' is only to get the port in which the device is connected. Step 1 Open the web browser and type the IP address of the router (default is 192.168.1.1) into the address bar and then Press Enter. Thanks for posting this *after* I finished a 'What's Connected Where' jihad on our network.