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what is MAC address?
Name: faruk Date: February 7, 2002 at 04:43:13 Pacific
Name: zoolander Date: February 7, 2002 at 05:39:26 Pacific
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MAC address is short for Media Access Control address, a hardware address that uniquely identifies each node of a network.
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Response Number 2
Name: pete Date: February 7, 2002 at 12:43:29 Pacific
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there is also a MAC address for every network card.
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Response Number 3
Name: techtony Date: February 7, 2002 at 22:45:45 Pacific
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All network devices have a MAC address burned into them at the factory and no two are alike. The first part of the address is the manufacturer's code and the second part is unique to every individual device manufactured. This is how networking devices uniquely identify devices on the network. IP addresses are a sort of software identifier patched onto the MAC identifier.
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