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| Newer page: | version 8 | Last edited on Tuesday, October 12, 2004 2:04:08 pm | by JohnMcPherson | |
| Older page: | version 3 | Last edited on Tuesday, October 12, 2004 10:18:55 am | by StuartYeates | Revert |
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-The hardware address of an [Ethernet] card. These are 6 bytes long (eg: 00:00:0C:1A:4B:C3).
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-You have to 'reserve' part of the [MAC] address space when you make a network card, so everyone has a unique address. Since everyone's network card is unique, this is often used as a unique identifier for a machine (even though a machine may have multiple network cards, or not have one at all).
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-The [MAC] in a [TCP/IP] header is a combination of the two
[MACAddress]es involved in a connection and the [Protocol]
.
+Describe
[MACAddress] here
.
