Tuesday, June 23, 2009


MAC addressing

MAC addressing short form of Media Access Control address. MAC provide the physical or devices or hardware address. MAC provide adrress on the network interface card (NIC), which located int the Layer 2 addresses. MAC address is very unique . The usual MAC addressing format is

XX:XX:XX:YY:YY:YY

Note ; XX:XX:XX = ID number of the adapter manufacture and
YY:YY:YY = serial number of manufacture. MAC address usually used the hexadecimal numbering format.

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