how to get machines mac address

Question

I want get machines\' MAC address..but below written code only display the MAC address when Internet is connected to my machine other it will return null... I am using windows 7

Answer 1

Try this it should work in both Linux and windows

public static void main(String[] args) {

    String command = "/sbin/ifconfig";

    String sOsName = System.getProperty("os.name");
    if (sOsName.startsWith("Windows")) {
        command = "ipconfig";
    } else {

        if ((sOsName.startsWith("Linux")) || (sOsName.startsWith("Mac"))
                || (sOsName.startsWith("HP-UX"))) {
            command = "/sbin/ifconfig";
        } else {
            System.out.println("The current operating system '" + sOsName
                    + "' is not supported.");
        }
    }

    Pattern p = Pattern
            .compile("([a-fA-F0-9]{1,2}(-|:)){5}[a-fA-F0-9]{1,2}");
    try {
        Process pa = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command);
        pa.waitFor();
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                pa.getInputStream()));

        String line;
        Matcher m;
        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {

            m = p.matcher(line);

            if (!m.find())
                continue;
            line = m.group();
            break;

        }
        System.out.println(line);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

}