• A MAC address (short for medium access control address) is a unique identifier assigned to a network interface controller (NIC) for use as a network address...
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    channel uploaded a video claiming that Apple refused to repair Sebastian's iMac Pro after Linus Tech Tips staff damaged it in a product teardown, a refusal...
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  • MAC spoofing is a technique for changing a factory-assigned Media Access Control (MAC) address of a network interface on a networked device. The MAC address...
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  • In computer networking, MAC address filtering is a security access control method whereby the MAC address assigned to each network interface controller...
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    permit the end user to customise the MAC address, notably OpenWRT. Usage of the node's network card MAC address for the node ID means that a version-1...
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  • about each of your network connections, including the MAC address of the interface, the IP address assigned to it, its speed and status, a count of data...
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  • 1D-conformant MAC bridges. 802.11 wireless networks use the same MAC addresses for multicast as Ethernet. Broadcast address Reserved IP addresses The recommended...
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  • MAC address. In Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) networks, broadcast addresses are special values in the host-identification part of an IP address....
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  • The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is a communication protocol used for discovering the link layer address, such as a MAC address, associated with a...
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  • the address may be assigned to another device. Some DHCP implementations attempt to reassign the same IP address to a host, based on its MAC address, each...
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  • allocation, fixed address allocation, reservation, and MAC/IP address binding. An administrator maps a unique identifier (a client id or MAC address) for each...
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  • MAC address prefix 33:33:FF:28:9C:5A Solicited-node multicast MAC address -- -- -- The least-significant 24 bits Solicited-node multicast addresses are...
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    append(tx)/remove(rx) MAC address The local network addresses used in IEEE 802 networks and FDDI networks are called MAC addresses; they are based on the addressing scheme...
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  • destination device. A network switch is a multiport network bridge that uses MAC addresses to forward data at the data link layer (layer 2) of the OSI model. Some...
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    networks including the Internet IPX address, in NetWare X.25 or X.21 address, in a circuit switched data network MAC address, in Ethernet and other related...
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  • Protocol (IPv4) address from a computer network, when all it has available is its link layer or hardware address, such as a MAC address. The client broadcasts...
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    interface's MAC address using the modified EUI-64 format, but this method is now not recommended for privacy reasons.) Unique local addresses are addresses analogous...
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  • destined for. In a typical MAC flooding attack, a switch is fed many Ethernet frames, each containing a different source MAC address, by the attacker. The...
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  • The physical gateway address is called the media access control(MAC) address or burned in address (BIA). The physical address is assigned when the device...
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  • learns the CE's MAC address, storing it locally along with LSP routing information. It then checks the frame's destination MAC address. If it is a broadcast...
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  • MAC address anonymization performs a one-way function on a MAC address so that the result may be used in tracking systems for reporting and the general...
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  • MAC addresses, Subnetwork Access Protocol protocol identifiers, World Wide Names for Fibre Channel devices or vendor blocks in EDID. In MAC addresses...
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  • guaranteed automatically by the address selection methodology. It may be MAC-address based, or randomized. Automatic duplicate address detection algorithms prevent...
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    (spoofed) Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) messages onto a local area network. Generally, the aim is to associate the attacker's MAC address with the...
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    IPv6 (redirect from IPv4-compatible address)
    link-layer addresses (e.g. MAC addresses), because it does not support the broadcast addressing method, on which the functionality of the Address Resolution...
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  • gateway IP address and answer ARP requests with the same MAC address, thus achieving transparent default gateway failover. In the virtual MAC address, Xs represent...
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  • design, an address pool may be the availability of a set of addresses (IP address, MAC address) available to an application that is shared among its users...
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  • destination and offers its own MAC address as the (ostensibly final) destination. The traffic directed to the proxy address is then typically routed by the...
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    AirDrop (redirect from AirDrop (Mac OS X))
    'Data Frames' using generated link-local IPv6 addresses instead of the Wi-Fi chip's fixed MAC address. Prior to OS X Yosemite (OS X 10.10), and under...
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  • address in IP is variable, while in IPX it is fixed. As the node address is usually identical to the MAC address of the network adapter, the Address Resolution...
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