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Here is how you get the Mac address on a windows computers.

The MAC or media access control address is an identifiers that every network devices uses to
uniquely identifies itself on a network. So no two device anywhere in the world has the same MAC
address. Its made up of six byte hexadecimal number that is burned into every NIC by its
manufacturer. The MAC address can contain any number and it also contain alphabets to A to F.

The MAC address is broken up into two part-

The first 3 bytes of the MAC address identifies the manufacturer of the NIC. For example, Linksys,
Netgear, Belkin.

And a last three bytes are a unique number from the manufacturer that identifies each device in a
network.

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