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Question: IP Address over MAC Address
Answer: Why we need IP address over mac address? |
| April 04, 2009 02:45:05 |
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| contact_richa_at |
Member Since: October 2006 Total Comments: 1 |
RE: IP Address over MAC Address
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MAC Address is the physical address that is usually stored in Network card .
IP Address is a logical address of the computer.
In Networking Data Link Layer creates frames by writing MAC address into the header of the message. This process of creating frames and at other layer creating packets from frames is to make sure of sending the message to exact destination.
This process helps routing the message(containg the MAC adderess) to the desired destination.
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Richa |
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