Sacha Chua wrote:
> 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.
actually its a 6 bytes or 48 bits address at data link layer not on the physical
link layer.
>
> --
>
> 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. =)
the proper statement there is that ip address of that host is *map* to its own mac
address. the reason to map because ip address is only 4 bytes compare to 6 bytes
value of mac address which of course cannot be use directly for addressing and
thats what address resolution protocol (ARP) do to solve this problem.
fooler.
>
>
> Hey, I learned something from Doc Tagle's class! =)
>
> Sacha 8)
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