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What is a MAC address
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Wednesday March 31, 2010
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Wednesday March 31, 2010
When you get into computers and on the Internet, you find there are many types of addresses. Internal IP addresses, external IP addresses, Web addresses, and then something called a MAC Address.
What the heck is a MAC address?
Let's see just what that is.Download this episode now
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- MAC stands for "Media Access Control".
- The MAC address is a unique identifier that's assigned to each network interface card (NIC).
- If you go into your router setup, you can find your MAC address, generally under Status.
- Because it's unique, the MAC address can be used for security.
- In your router, it's possible to turn on MAC address filtering.
- With this enabled, you could create a list of approved MAC addresses that could access your network.
- In this case, if a computers MAC address was not on the approved list it could not access the network.
- The MAC address is a unique identifier that's assigned to each network interface card (NIC).
- If you go into your router setup, you can find your MAC address, generally under Status.
- Because it's unique, the MAC address can be used for security.
- In your router, it's possible to turn on MAC address filtering.
- With this enabled, you could create a list of approved MAC addresses that could access your network.
- In this case, if a computers MAC address was not on the approved list it could not access the network.
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