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Friday, October 1, 2010

MAC address: Media Access Control address

MAC address: Media Access Control address
Know your MAC Address
Find MAC Address

MAC address a unique number of each network product. MAC address is given to every Network device by its manufacturer. These numbers are give to manufacturer by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). MAC address according to the rules of one of three numbering name spaces managed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): MAC-48, EUI-48, and EUI-64. The IEEE claims trademarks on the names EUI-48 and EUI-64, in which EUI is an acronym for Extended Unique Identifier.MAC Address also known as Physical Adress.

To Know your MAC address:
Start--->Run----->cmd
type in BOX
c:\>ipconfig /all
mac_1