Hi,
Me too have similar kind of question..
how does dial up clients are addressed in Internet,
when they dont have NIC so not MAC address.
Gaurang.
--- Jose Manuel Arronte Garcia
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> I thank you all for those comments about my post on
> IP<->MAC,
> you all let me know about the previous non-existence
> of MAC(ethernet)
>
> I may sound dumb, but, what mechanisms did you have
> in lower layers previous to MAC implementations? it
> was all done by IP addresses?
>
> Not everything has a MAC address nowadays, but, does
> everything (in an IP network) need an IP address?
>
> Saludos.
> Regards.
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