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

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

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

Applications for Education.
Many readers of this blog site will never need to know what MAC address is or how it fits into the networking procedure. It is great to understand and can handy to understand how to find it if your IT administrator ever asks for it.

The most current PowerCert video is MAC Address Explained. As the title states, the video discusses what a MAC address is, how its composed, where to find it, and its function in networking. The video also does a fantastic task of explaining the crucial difference between MAC addresses and IP addresses. Finally, a fast description of ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) ties the key ideas of the video together..

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