The MAC address is the physical address. Usually the MAC address is a unique hexadecimal address hard coded into the network card.
There is no physical address.
•What is the physical address (the MAC address) of the NIC (or network adapter) for this connection?
ARP stands for Address Resolution Protocol, a network layer protocol used to convert an IP address into a physical address, such as an Ethernet address. A host wishing to obtain a physical address broadcasts an ARP request onto the TCP/IP network. The host on the network that has the IP address in the request then replies with its physical hardware address.
ARP address resolution protocol
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logical address is called as global address and physical address is called as local address .the ip address,which is used by the user in the network is found to be global for use and it is easily identified in any network .physical address is mac address ,which is stored in the nic card,which is mainly used ,when the system is connected in the network using switch
Your physical address is the MAC (Media Access Control) address that is burned into the network interface card (NIC). That address is unique and is used to find devices within a LAN.
The Windows command arp stands for address resolution protocol which simply transforms an IP address to its corresponding physical network address.And 'arp -a' simply lists down the physical network addresses of the network devices connected to the current PC.
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The Windows command arp stands for address resolution protocol which simply transforms an IP address to its corresponding physical network address.And 'arp -a' simply lists down the physical network addresses of the network devices connected to the current PC.
In computer networking, a node refers to a connection point. It has two types of addresses, a network address and a physical address.