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What is the difference between physical address and logical address?
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Answered by: kalyan raghavan
- Jan 23rd, 2006
A Physical address is a 48-bit flat address burned into the ROM of the NIC card which is a Layer1 device of the OSI model. This iis divided into 24-bit vendor code and 24-bit serial address. This is unique for each system and cannot be changed.
A Logical address is a 32- bit address assigned to each system in a network. This works in Layer-3 of OSI Model. This would be generally the IP address.
Manu Ratheesh
- Aug 26th, 2017
Physical Address: It is the address of a node defined by its LAN or WAN. It is included in the frame used by Data Link Layer. It is the lowest level address. The size and the format of these addresses...
paras gautam
- Aug 19th, 2017
A logical address is a 32 bit address which is also called ip address and it is used to uniquely identify a device on a network where physical address is also Media Access Control address it is 48 bit address every device in a network has its own unique MAC address
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