IP: 32-bits MAC: 48-bits Why don't we use TCP/MAC?
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IP: 32-bits
MAC: 48-bits
Why don't we use TCP/MAC?
>>55078882
Because I like my sister.
Because mac is 48 bits and ip is only 32?
>>55078894
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cause all PC's have MACS regarding of how you arrange the network layers.
>>55078882
dude really, can you imagine write Hex on your Web browser. abcdef1234567890
>>55078882
Because mac is second layer and ip is third layer of the osi model. This means if you use a switch TCP/MAC would flip out.
dude what macs are 64 bit
>>55078882
because you do.
Every NIC has MAC assigned to it by the manufacturer.
The MAC is whats used to communicate between you and your edge router. The IP is used to find the destination over the whole net. When someone arrives at your edge router for the first time your router is going to do a discovery lookup to find whose MAC owns the IP it wants to send to.
IPv6 makes it 128 bits btw.
>>55078987
Ipv6 eui-64
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>>55078882
IP is a protocol for sending date from one point in a generic data routing network to another point.
MAC is just a hardware address
Also IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses
>>55078882
Please look at the OSI model, you retard.
