Term sometimes used to refer to the hardware address of a network device. See also hardware address.
(n.) An actual hardware address that matches a memory location; programs that refer to virtual addresses are subsequently mapped to physical addresses.
The physical address is also referred to as the hardware address or MAC address and consists of a dozen hexadecimal digits (0-9 and a-f) typically expressed in six pairs of hex digits separated by hyphens. This address is often printed on the wireless card/device itself and can usually also be found through the software that configures your device.
the actual address of a value in the physical memory. [SILC99
The address of the interface between the MAC interface and a LAN.
An address used to uniquely identify a device on an Ethernet or Token Ring network whenever the device transmits to other devices. The physical address for LXE 6200 series devices is assigned by LXE. This address must be entered by the user through the network management workstation.
A reference to an exact physical memory location (as opposed to virtual memory location).
A unique identifier that selects a particular device from the set of all devices connected to a particular bus.
a logic address that has gone through the paging mechanism
an address that the CPU sends to the memory bus to directly address the memory chips in your system
a unique, hardware-level address associated with a specific network controller
Also called hardware address or MAC-layer address, a data link layer address associated with a particular network device. Contrasts with a network or protocol address, which is a network layer address. For example, 0800.0786.175C (which can be written a variety of ways including 08:00:07:86:17:5C or 08000786175C) is a hardware address while 128.135.12.73 is a network or protocol address (specifically TCP/IP).
An address identifying a single node.
A 'real' address, the value that must be placed on the system address bus to select a physical memory bank or device.
The address of the physical communications device in a system.
In computer science, a physical address is the address presented to a computer's main memory in a virtual memory system, in contrast to the virtual address which is the address generated by the CPU. Virtual addresses are translated into physical addresses by a memory management unit (abbreviated MMU). In network connection, physical address also means MAC address.