Checking Information about the Network

Checking the IP Address or the MAC Address of the Machine

To check the IP address or the MAC address of the machine, print out the network setting information using the operation panel of the machine.

To display the network setting information using IJ Network Tool, select Network Information on the View menu.

To check the IP address or MAC address assigned to the computer, follow the procedure below.

Select System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Network.
Make sure that the network interface you are using on your computer is selected, then click Advanced.

Make sure that Wi-Fi is selected as the network interface.
Confirm the IP address or MAC address.

Click TCP/IP to confirm the IP address.

Click Hardware to confirm the MAC address.

To check that communication is available, perform the ping test.

Open the Utilities folder in the Applications folder.
Start Network Utility.
Click the Ping button.
Make sure that Send only XX pings (XX are numbers) is selected.
Enter the IP address of the target machine or the target wireless router in Enter the network address to ping..
Click Ping.

"XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX" is the IP address of the target device.

A message such as the following is displayed.

64 bytes from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=3.394 ms

64 bytes from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.786 ms

64 bytes from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.739 ms

--- XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX ping statistics ---

3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss

If the packet loss is 100%, the communication is not available. Otherwise, the computer is communicating with the target device.

To check the network setting information of the machine, print out the network setting information using the operation panel of the machine.