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| Newer 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).
+The hardware address of an [Ethernet]
card. These are 6 bytes long (eg: 00:00:0C:1A:4B:C3).
-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).
+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).
+
+The [MAC] in a [TCP/IP] header is a combination of the two [MACAddress]es involved in a connection and the [Protocol]
.
