> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sacha Chua [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 8:05 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [plug] Networkd Hardware Address Reading
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> 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:
> --
> 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.
Sorry, I need to correct this out because afaik, MAC is only a 48 bits
(6-byte) physical address which is 3 bytes vendor + 3 bytes serial number.
Any comments guys! :-)
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