MAC addresses are flat.
Hierarchical addressing organizes addresses in a tree-like structure with levels or layers, like in IP addresses. Flat addressing treats all addresses as equal without any structure or hierarchy, like in MAC addresses.
Hierarchical paging is a memory management technique used in computer systems where the page table is structured in a hierarchical manner to efficiently map virtual addresses to physical addresses. This helps in reducing the space required for page tables and improves memory access times.
An example is IPv4 addresses having network, subnetwork, and host portions.
Domain Name System (DNS)
Domain Name System (DNS)
mAC ADDRESS its actually network addresses.
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A flat address space
Bill Gates has been quoted saying that Microsoft is a flat structured organisation
Tapeworms. Flukes and Planaria are also other examples of flat worms.
The use of network prefixes in IP addressing enables it to be hierarchical. By subdividing the address space into network and host portions, IP addresses can be aggregated into larger blocks that simplify routing and management of networks. This hierarchical structure allows for efficient routing of data packets across a network.