Follow this procedure to confirm MAC addresses of installed NEM and EM ports and match them to the Windows Device Friendly Names.
To open a Windows command prompt and run ipconfig /all
follow these steps:
Click -> Start -> Run.
The Run dialog box appears.
In the Run dialog box, type cmd then click OK.
The cmd.exe DOS window appears.
In the cmd.exe DOS window, type ipconfig /all.
The output from the ipconfig /all
command identifies the installed NEM and EM ports by the connection name in the order of
enumeration.
The output does not necessarily follow an alpha or numeric order. You can customize the connection name in the Network Connections folder, for details see Microsoft's documentation. The output below illustrates how the Windows operating system, by default, assigns logical names to network interfaces.
In the sample output:
where Ethernet Adapter Local Area Connection
is the Windows default logical name (friendly name) assigned to a network
interface.
Note that the first Ethernet Adapter Local Area Connection appears with a null value. This entry identifies the connection-specific DNS suffix ( for
example, east.sun.com
) and the physical MAC address for that port.
where Ethernet Adapter Local Area Connection 2
identifies a disconnected media state, a description, and the physical MAC
address for that port.