Now giving a terse description about the data bits. MAC addresses are of two types, the universally administered addresses assigned by the manufacturer of the NIC and the locally administered addresses which are assigned to a computer device by the network administrator. That means it can accommodate 2^48 MAC addresses in all. Since, the address is registered and encoded by the manufacturer is it also known as hardware address. Every machine having a network interface card (NIC) installed in it is assgined a MAC Address. ![]() Just like every house needs an address of its own to get identified by others, similarly every hardware machine also requires an identifier. MAC address or Media Access Control address is a unique identifying address that is designated to a computer over physical networks.
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