X-Nico

unusual facts about MAC address



Data Link Control

Network interface cards have a DLC address that identifies each card; for instance, Ethernet and other types of cards have a 48-bit MAC address built into the cards' firmware when they are manufactured.


see also

Address translation

Address Resolution Protocol or ARP, a computer networking protocol used to find out the hardware address of a host (usually a MAC address), when only the network layer address is known

Link aggregation

;XOR (balance-xor): Transmit network packets based on (source MAC address XOR'd with destination MAC address) modulo NIC slave count.

Network Load Balancing

The unicast IPv4 address of the cluster is linked to a multicast MAC address.

RMON

# Filter: defines packet data patterns of interest e.g. MAC address or TCP port