----- Original Message ----- From: "narendra sisodiya" <[email protected]> To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:35 PM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Laptop tracking using MAC address
> Dear All, > A very disappointed morning for me. My laptop got stolen. is it > possible to track laptop using MAC address. Police asked for MAC address. > Q1 . How to track using MAC address or any other possibility ? > Q2. How to get mac address when you do not have laptop with you. I have Hi, The MAC address is unique for each Network device. The one embedded in your laptop is therefore also unique. That is the reason police is asking for it. Using the MAC address, they can find the location if someone uses your laptop to connect to the internet. It is generally listed at the back of the laptop, but as you have lost the laptop the number is lost too. You can contact your laptop company and if you have the serial number of the laptop, they may be able to help you get the MAC address as they might be having records of the same. Your serial number may be available on the purchase invoice provided to you by your dealer, if not you can look for the same on the box that the laptop was shipped in. Hope you are able to recover the laptop soon. Also hope all members make an immediate note of their own MAC addresses to counter such a situation in future. Vinod Chand -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
