On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Gino LV. Ledesma wrote:
>> the MAC address is guaranteed unique. think of it as something like the
>> PIII serial number.
> Pardon my ignorance, but when you say MAC does it mean Mac (brand) or is it
> a TLA?
MAC - Media Access Control address. According to ugeek.com:
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This is a unique 128-bit address of a network card or device. The first
part of the address is unique to the company that produced the device, and
beyond that, it is a sequence of digits unique to a single device
manufactured by a company.
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IP addresses are converted to MAC addresses through ARP (Address
Resolution Protocol). It's the hardware address of your network
card/device. That way, your packets are received by the right
computer. Hope this helps. =)
Hey, I learned something from Doc Tagle's class! =)
Sacha 8)
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