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IoT in a box === University Network

Topic last updated 21 Dec 2016, by sam mottley. 1 reply
Roger Grosvenor
07 Dec 2016

I have an IoT in Box. It works great when I plug it into my router at home. BUT, not at all when I plug it into the network at my University. The IT people are asking me for a MAC address for the permission to connect form. Is this the same or different (I suspect different) to the unique identity code? How can I obtain the MAC address? Does anyone else have similar experiences? Thanks Roger

sam mottley
21 Dec 2016

I have no experience with " IoT in Box" kit but if your using mbed using the EthernetInterface you can use the method "get_mac_address()", this might help https://docs.mbed.com/docs/mbed-os-api-reference/en/5.1/APIs/communication/ethernet/#api

Although you could always or may have to set your own MAC address :)

You might be able to work around your problem by having two Ethernet cards in your PC, one plugged into the Ethernet socket and the other plugged into the uC board. Then on windows share the network adapter of the Ethernet card plugged into the Ethernet socket with the one plugged into the uC board. You could also do this between say a wireless adapter and your Ethernet adapter. That may get you around the MAC address verification used on your university's firewalls/port protection, not 100% sure though haha.