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For network devices, it's a MAC address. MAC stands for 'media access control' and it's a unique identifier that's present in all hardware that interfaces with a traditional computer network. The device that manages DHCP (or assigning IP addresses to devices) often asks the devices for their MAC addresses and then gives them an IP address. Usually MAC addresses are written as something like 00:0a:5e:1a:8d:a2 and they use hexidecimal notation (allowed numbers 0-9, and letters A-F).

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