Every NIC ( Network Interface Card ) has a hardware address that's known as a MAC address. for Media Access Control. MAC address of a computer is a unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications at the data link layer of a network segment. MAC address can be find in your all mobile devices as well as your all laptops and computers
Is the Mac address the same as the IP address?
No, they are not same, A MAC address is given to a network adapter when it is manufactured in factory. It is hardwired or hard-coded onto your computer's network interface card (NIC) and is unique to it, it means all mobile devices and computers have their own unique MAC address which is not match to the another laptop's MAC address.
What is meant by WiFi MAC address?
The Media Access Control (MAC) address is a unique 12-character identifier (e.g. 00:00:00:00:00:0F) for a specific piece of hardware situated on your mobile or computer devices, like the network adapter located in WiFi devices.
What are the uses of MAC address?
MAC are specially used to sent data packets to the broadcast address ( one device to another device ), all one bits, are received by all stations on a local area network. Packets sent to a multicast address are received by all stations on a LAN that have been configured to receive packets sent to that address.
