Ethernet address
UNIQUE IDENTIFIER ASSIGNED TO NETWORK INTERFACES FOR COMMUNICATIONS ON THE PHYSICAL NETWORK SEGMENT
Burned-in address; Locally Administered Address; Univerally Administered Address; MAC-48; EUI-48; EUI-64; Mac address; MAC Address; Ethernet address; MAC-address; EUI64; MAC addresses; Media access control address; Mac Address; Ethernet Hardware Address; Extended Unique Identifier; Hw address; Burned-in addresses; Burned-In Address; Hardware address; Hardware Address; Media Access Control address; Locally administered address
<
networking> (Or "
MAC address") The physical
address
identifying an individual
Ethernet controller board. An
Ethernet addess is a 48-bit number aabbccddeeff where a-f are
hexadecimal digits. The first 24 bits, aabbcc, identify the
manufacturer of the controller. The Ethernet
address is
hard-wired on some controllers, stored in a
ROM on some, and
others allow it to be changed from software. It is usually
written as six hexadecimal numbers, e.g. 08:00:20:03:72:DC.
See also
ARP,
Internet address.
(1996-02-21)