How can I see the mac address of the ethernets on the computer where the Proxmox machine is installed?

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Hello, there are 3 ethernet cards on the Proxmox Server server. I want to see the actual mac addresses of these Ethernet cards. What is the linux command to see mac addresses? I'm not asking for VMs. I am asking the mac address of the hardware ethernet cards on the machine running on Proxmox.

thankyou for support.

 

[shrdlicka]

via the command line

ip link

 

[pilgrimage]

thankyou.

 

[Disco]

EDIT:

How to see MAC addresses of passed through Ethernet ports in Proxmox management WebGUI or CLI? Ethernet ports are shown as PCI devices. If I used a Linux brigde, MAC addresses would be visible.

 

[LnxBil]

on VM they show up like this without MAC address.

What do you mean by that? Please post a screenshot and if you have the problem in Windows, please try linux.

 

[Disco]

I tried to reformulate my question, please see above.

 

[LnxBil]

The picture shows pci devices, not network devices, therefore are there no mac addresses.

I can recommend to NOT use passthrough and model everything directly in PVE and let virtualization do its best.

 

[BobhWasatch]

Reading the MAC address from an Ethernet device requires software, namely the driver for the device. It is not externally visible like a PCI ID (typically the MAC is stored in non-volatile memory on the card). Since you passed the devices to a VM, no driver will be loaded on the host so the host can't read the addresses. They are just generic PCI devices to the host.

You should, however, be able to load a driver in the VM and read the MAC addresses from inside the VM.

 

[t.m]

Reading the MAC address from an Ethernet device requires software, namely the driver for the device. It is not externally visible like a PCI ID (typically the MAC is stored in non-volatile memory on the card). Since you passed the devices to a VM, no driver will be loaded on the host so the host can't read the addresses. They are just generic PCI devices to the host.

You should, however, be able to load a driver in the VM and read the MAC addresses from inside the VM.

hi I have different question how to see mac address of the proxmox in order to set ip reservation on my router and do port forwarding so i can access it from different pc not connected to my local network and is this the way to do it ?

 

[BobhWasatch]

"ip a" will show the mac address of all your interfaces. See the "link/ether" line. This is from a non-PVE Linux machine that has a bridge similar to PVE but with a different name:

$ ip a
<deleted>
6: br0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 9e:df:1f:ac:fe:5a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.52.12/24 brd 192.168.52.255 scope global br0

The "link/ether" item is the MAC, in this case 9e:df:1f:ac:fe:5a. Your bridge is probably "vmbr0" rather than "br0" but the output will be similar.