Normal users can’t directly change it on their will so it works fine. The owner can’t directly identify if it’s your device but he can see it’s MAC address and block it if he finds it annoying. While connecting your device to a network (e.g., WiFi Hotspot), your MAC address is recorded there. So, your laptop, smartphone, WiFi radio, each of them have a separate and fixed MAC address. Will set a static IP address on WiFiNetwork connection to 10.0.0.101.MAC or “Media Access Control” Address is hardware address assigned to network interface devices. It can list current interfaces, change IP, modify DNS servers, delete and create network interfaces and many more. Networksetup is a powerful command line tool which covers every possible operation you may want to do with Mac OS network interfaces. You can also use scutil to view current DNS configuration. Sudo scutil -set ComputerName M圜omputerName Scutil or “system configuration utility” is a command line tool which can retrieve computer network information, set the computer name, retrieve and set settings in the operating system dynamic store. For more details on ifconfig visit ifconfig manual page. There are also multiple options of ifconfig which allow changing network configuration but we won’t list them here since they require advanced network administration knowledge and may cause problems if used by inexperienced user. To view a specific interface following command should be used: To view all interfaces including inactive ones run: For example, if you run ifconfig without arguments you will see all of your computer network interfaces.

Ifconfig is a Unix based tool which can display and manage network interfaces of the computer. You can refer to a full ipconfig manual at ss64 ipconfig page.

Ipconfig is a Mac OS X tool which allows to view certain details about computer network connections.įor example, you can use it to retrieve a Mac OS computer IP address: To find out your router IP address use following commands: Ipconfig getoption en0 domain_name_server

Before proceeding to a detailed description of Mac OS network tools we will list a quick list of commands to find out IP address of your Mac OS computer.īelow are commands to get an IP address of your DNS (domain name server):

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