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benjaminwanger

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December 1st, 2017 01:00

Dell Dock D6000

Hello,

I only found two ways to geht the Passthrough MAC Adress from the notebooks.

The first way is to have a look in the BIOS

The second way is to connect the notebook to a D6000 then the ethernet adapter will be installed and I can get the Passthorugh MAC via ipconfig /all

Is it possible to get the Passthrough MAC Address via a Command in Windows or something else?

That would be great because we have notebooks in our company and we want to know the pass through mac adress before we are begin with the rollout of the d6000.

We have to register the Pass Through MAC Adress in our network first, before getting a network connection to our company with the notebook

Can someone help me?

Thanks!

mkaptan

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December 1st, 2017 05:00

Hi Benjamin,

if you are corporate customer you may discuss this with your Dell Account manager. Services may be able to add this information to your Configuration Services Asset Report (payable service). Most customers I know, signed up for this service and get this (and other information like GUID, Service-Tag, etc.) in advance. Basically an excel or csv file. So you can prepare anything to smoothly deploy your notebooks, desktops etc.

Another alternative is to capture this information during deployment. There is an Dell Platform Tags Utility that could be run during WinPE or Windows. Download: https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/drivers/driversdetails?driverId=T3JYG .

This tool can read "Auxiliary MAC address". This MAC address is equal to your Passthrough MAC Address. Not an expert on this but you may be able to build a script to register with your network tools.

BrechtMo

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March 2nd, 2018 03:00

the tag utility is what I was looking for as well.

It returns output like this

PlatformTags64W.exe -- Version 4.0.25.1
(C) Copyright 1993-2016 Dell Inc.

Aux Mac Value .... XXXXXXXXXXXX

SUCCESS - Application return code (0x00)

 which you can parse and use.

e.g.

$app = "c:\Dell\Drivers\PlatformTags\PlatformTags64W.exe"
$param = "RAM"

$((& $app $param) -join " ") -match "([A-F0-9]{12})"

$mac = $matches[0]
write-output $mac

 

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