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Appendix B: Finding the GUID/ MAC and Serial Number
on the Adapter Card
Each Mellanox adapter card has a different identifier printed on the label: serial number and the
card MAC for the Ethernet protocol.
Figure 17: Card Product Label
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Retrieving Adapter Card GUID
On ConnectX-3 Ethernet adapter cards, there is a mismatch between the GUID value returned by
firmware management tools and that returned by fabric/driver utilities that read the GUID via
device firmware (e.g., using ibstat). Mlxburn/flint returns 0xffff as GUID while the utilities return
a value derived from the MAC address. For all driver/firmware/software purposes, the latter value
should be used. Please see the below example.