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Because It can make diagnosing network/poor internet connectivity issues much easier.

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Q: Why is a MAC physical address important?
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What is physical address in network?

The MAC address is the physical address. Usually the MAC address is a unique hexadecimal address hard coded into the network card.


What is the physical address (the MAC address) of the NIC (or network adapter) for this connection?

•What is the physical address (the MAC address) of the NIC (or network adapter) for this connection?


Which of the OSI layers translates the MAC address into a physical address?

The MAC sublayer is part of Layer 2 - Data Link Layer - but it is more correct to say that the MAC address is the physical address.


What is another name for the physical address assigned to each adapter?

mac address, physical .address address book ,physical change


How can you find the physical address of any PC?

from the PC MAC Address.


After running cmd where is the Mac address?

After running cmd, you can check the MAC (Physical Address) address by using the command ipconfig /all.


What is commonly used to restrict access to a network based on the physical hardware address of the clients network device?

You can enable MAC address (also know as Physical Address) filtering. MAC address filtering has two modes: 1. Allow access to listed MAC addresses 2. Deny access to listed MAC addresses.


What are other names for the Mac address?

There are a couple other ways to refer to a MAC address. One could use the full name, media access control address, rather than the acronym. A MAC address could also be referred to a UAA, or universally administered address.


What is another name for the physical address assigned to each network adapter?

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How do you find out your Mac address in windows 7?

click start search for: cmd hit enter type in ipconfig /all Under Physical address that is your MAC address


Network layer protocol that obtains the MAC physical address of a host or node and then creates a database that maps the MAC address to the hosts IP logical address?

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Does an unmanaged switch have its own MAC address?

yes i think, because the MAC address is the physical address which is assigned by the vendor of the Ethernet card. ** Improved Answer ** No, Unmanaged switches do not have a MAC address. All they do is filter, forward or flood frames.