We've been showing you guys a lot of various Windows XP command line utilities lately and getmac is another one we'd like to put a spotlight on. Knowing your MAC address can come in handy while troubleshooting. There's a lot more to it than just the simple getmac command.

Here's the default getmac command:

 

When you have more than one NIC in a system the standard report simply isn't good enough since it does not tell you which connection the address belongs to. This is where the /v parameter comes in handy. It adds some additional information to help you identify which card it belongs to.

Since that isn't the easiest to read format we'll want to use a couple additional parameters. the /fo list parameter formats the data into a nice easy to read list. The command you'll want to use is Getmac /V /FO List. It will give you data that looks like this: