Finding Printer NIC Mac address

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Finding Printer NIC Mac address

Using a Brother HN-5240 and I'd like to find the MAC address of the NIC. Nothing in the Brother manual that I can find and Leopard doesn't seem to have an option for displaying it.

Tried going through Vista as well with not much luck. Usually a printer can be made to print out a config page, but not apparently this one, unless I've missed it.

iMAC 24", 2.4 GHz 4 GB - 500 GB HDD, Macbook 2.0 GHz, 2GB, Macbook 2.4 GHz, 2GB, Mac OS X (10.5.6), 250 GB LaCie, Pentax K10D

Posted on May 13, 2009 3:30 AM

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Answer 1

PAHU

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May 13, 2009 3:19 PM in response to Rusty Rat

Some network printers have an internal web page that could give you the address.

Also, if the printer supports SNMP, and most network printers do, you could use an SNMP query utility to find the MAC. The Object ID for the MAC address should be 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.6

PaHu

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ArnieAZ

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May 13, 2009 3:29 PM in response to Rusty Rat

On my Brother 2070N, pressing the start button 3 times, causes it to print out all maintenance information.

Also, if you go into your routers DHCP Clients list, it will show the MAC address and IP address.

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Answer 3

Rusty Rat Author

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May 13, 2009 4:44 PM in response to PAHU

"Some network printers have an internal web page that could give you the address. "

Been there, done that, doesn't have it.

The SNMP query I'll have to look up as I didn't think of that.

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Rusty Rat Author

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May 13, 2009 4:51 PM in response to ArnieAZ

I've looked through all of the Brother documentation plus their website and can't find any reference to an info page. I can produce one on a Laserjet with my eyes closed. Pressing the Go button three times just confuses the **** out of it and it thinks it has a paper jam (it doesn't).

In the meantime, I've managed a workaround that has removed the urgency from the question.

Thanks for the replies.

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Answer 5

ArnieAZ

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May 13, 2009 5:34 PM in response to Rusty Rat

I was just thinking... The MAC address should be on one of the printer's external labels!
Arnie

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Answer 6

Rusty Rat Author

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May 13, 2009 6:03 PM in response to ArnieAZ

Good idea, but no see-gar. 🙂 Labels are mute on the subject.

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