Thanks for the help guys.
Here's the problem that brought me here to post this thread;
I just purchased a "Smart Power Strip", that allows me to send voice commands through Google Home or Amazon Echo to it. The problem is that nowehre on the device or in it's app does it show the MAC address. I have MAC filtering enabled so I need to first add any device's MAC address first in order for it to be able to connect....
Now, for some reason that I still don't understand, even though I add (in the powerstrip app that connects it to the router) the SSID and passphrase to the router (ASUS RT-AC68U), it won't connect at
all... (more on this later).
However, I also have an Apple Airport connected to the router via a network cable; for some reason I'm able to connect it to the network via the Airport; once it was connected I could finally get the MAC to the power strip, but it only showed in the Network Map | Client List. I'm unable to copy the MAC from there (as
@RMerlin mentioned). I wanted to copy the MAC to clipboard so I could add it to the DHCP List and MAC Filter, and then try to get it to connect again directly to the router rather than through the Airport (the Airport is a bit far away, with a weaker signal). Also, I was trying to find some sort of info in the system logs in the Merlin software that would hopefully show the MAC of the device trying to connect (even if it failed) so I could get it from there, but couldn't find anything. I was also hoping somewhere in the logs it would show me
why it was failing to connect directly to the router, again no luck unfortunately.
So, I ended up writing the MAC down on paper and adding it to the DHCP List & MAC Filter and trying again to directly connect the strip to the router; still no luck. It seems the only way I can get it connected is via the Airport.
For the record, I'm using the latest Merlin 384.3 (which I LOOOOOOOVE btw).