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The NIC or Network Inteface Card is hardware that is used to connect a system, computer, laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc. into a computer network. As its name suggests the NIC provides an interface to the network and runs required operations for network connectivity. There are different types of NICs for different network types and use … Read more
The MAC (Media Access Control) Address is a unique address assigned to every network interface for the Ethernet, Wireless, and Bluetooth cards. The MAC address is also called an Ethernet address too. MAC address generally matched with an IP address in order to communicate in a LAN with the gateway and other hosts in the … Read more
Today internet and computer networks use popular protocols like TCP/IP, Ethernet, etc. Ethernet is the most popular protocol used in Layer 2 which is called Media Access Control simply MAC. Every ethernet card has a MAC address in order to identify it uniquely. Normally MAC addressed are configured statically into the Ethernet cards, wireless cards, … Read more