Checking the MAC adress via console

• if the device has no, a duplicated or a wrong MAC-Adress on the label try the following.
• Connect to the serial console of the device (just like to a Cisco device, same serial port settings)
• you will be asked to set a password, choose whatever you like, its not saved as long you don't save the configuration
• type display diagnostic-information and hit ENTER
• this will give out a huge diagnostic report, some seconds after the section =====display interface==== appears, stop the output by pressing CTRL + C
• now search for the entry which starts with IP Sending Frames' Format is PKTFMT_ETHNT_2, Hardware address is xxxx-xxxx-xxxx
• the xxxx-xxxx-xxxx part is the Base Mac-adress of the device