What is a MAC Address? – Here’s a Concise Explanation

Applications for Education.
Most readers of this blog will never require to understand what MAC address is or how it suits the networking procedure. However, it is nice to understand and can useful to know how to find it if your IT administrator ever asks for it.

PowerCert Animated Videos provide clear and succinct explanations of big principles in hardware and networking. I described them relatively frequently when I was teaching an intro to networking course in 2015..

This video is one to bookmark and possibly use as a review resource or video-based lesson in a tool like Edpuzzle if you do teach networking.

The current PowerCert video is MAC Address Explained. As the title states, the video explains what a MAC address is, how its composed, where to find it, and its role in networking. The video also does an excellent job of discussing the key distinction between MAC addresses and IP addresses. A quick description of ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) connects the essential concepts of the video together..

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