The unique hardware number assigned to network connection devices such as your computer’s network card. In Ethernet, it is written as a series of six pairs of characters divided by hyphens (e.g., 00-0F-3D-50-A1-98), and is also referred to as the hardware address or adapter address. Or the “built-in†hardware address of a device connected to a shared medium.
An address—typically made up of numbers and letters-- assigned to your hardware that uniquely identifies itâ€(tm)s place on the network. If you need your MAC address during the Lingo installation process, it can be found on the back of the “Lingo box.
A unique number that the manufacturer assigns to each computer or other device in a network.
In a local area network, the protocol that determines which device has access to the transmission medium at a given time.
The unique physical address of each device's network interface card.
Within an ethernet local area network (LAN), machines identify each other by 48-bit MAC addresses, sometimes called physical addresses. These are usually notated as sequences of hexadecimal digits such as 00-50-00-7B-D2-77. These are sometimes written with colons, e.g. 00:50:00:7B:D2:77 instead of dashes. Every device that can be connected to a LAN has a unique MAC address. This address is assigned at the time the device is manufactured. It is burned into the device's firmware chip.
A hardwired address applied at the factory. It uniquely identifies network hardware, such as a wireless PC Card, on a LAN or WAN.
The MAC address of an ethernet hardware device such as a network interface card (NIC) is a 48-bit number that uniquely identifies the device. This hardware address is mapped to a computer's network address (such as its IP address in the case of TCP/IP) by higher level networking protocols.
A unique 128-bit address of a network card or device. The first...
