Viewing airport mac address

I am setting up a school district for mac address authentication and would like to view and export the airport mac addresses with Apple Remote Desktop. The application already has a view option for the ethernet mac address so getting the airport mac address shouldn't be too difficult? Who knows a unix command I cann send to get the results I need? I have about 2K wireless devices in our district. Thanks...

Hi
Take your pick:
networksetup -getmacaddress Ethernet
networksetup -getmacaddress Wi-Fi
networksetup -getmacaddress Firewire
HTH?
Tony

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Of course the MAC address and the IP address are two different things. I'm not sure why, Kappy, you thought I had this confusion. And I beg to differ, but MAC addresses are by interface, not by machine. So the ethernet port has a different MAC address than the Airport. They HAVE to have different MAC addresses or using two IP connections at the same time will not work when both ports are active at the same time and have the same MAC address. Using both ports at the same time with two independent IP addresses is completely supported by BSD Unix as well as OS X.
On my new machine the Ethernet Port EN0, has the MAC address 00:23:32:c8:27:4a
On my new machine the Airport Port, EN1, has the MAC address 00:11:22:33:44:55
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