Gather mac addresses of domain computers, preferably from command line

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In preparing to move to a domain and SCCM to manage machines in a new office I need to gather their MAC addresses. I could go from machine to machine, run ipconfig and gather the ip, but that would be time consuming. I can also look at a list of machines through the Network window, then work down the list pinging them, then looking up the ip in arp, still time consuming, but I wouldn't have to leave my office. Is there a better way? Possibly a series of command line tools? The current domain is managed by Win server 2000 so I have limited domain tools, and I am working with a win8 desktop.

There are a number of free tools that can do a ping sweep of your network, which will give you a list of computer names, ip addresses and the corresponding MAC addresses. — joeqwerty, Jul 22 '13 at 21:32

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 22 '13 at 19:59

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On Windows, you can use a couple nifty tricks already available. This only works if the machines will respond to a broadcasted ping:

ping 192.168.x.255 (where the ip is appropriate to your network) Then: arp -a to list the routing table. It'll contain any IP address that responded. Again, it's not fool-proof but it does return a majority of Windows machines in particular.

answered Jul 22 '13 at 19:59

Nathan C

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Yup, that or check the DHCP leases and reservations. – gravyface Jul 22 '13 at 20:14
I am getting an error with that ping command, it doesn't seem to recognize the ip – Tvanover Jul 22 '13 at 20:27
I think he's saying you need to ping the broadcast address of your LAN. Eg if your range is 192.168.1.0/24 then your broadcast address is 192.168.1.255. – john Jul 22 '13 at 21:11
@john exactly. This will populate the ARP table appropriately. – Nathan C Jul 23 '13 at 02:05

Gather mac addresses of domain computers, preferably from command line

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