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

PowerCert Animated Videos offer clear and concise explanations of big concepts in hardware and networking. I described them fairly frequently when I was teaching an intro to networking course in 2015..

Applications for Education.
A lot of readers of this blog site will never need to know what MAC address is or how it suits the networking process. Nevertheless, it is good to know and can handy to understand how to locate it if your IT administrator ever asks for it.

If you do teach networking, this video is one to bookmark and maybe utilize as an evaluation resource or video-based lesson in a tool like Edpuzzle.

The most recent PowerCert video is MAC Address Explained. As the title states, the video discusses what a MAC address is, how its composed, where to discover it, and its role in networking. The video also does a fantastic task of explaining the crucial distinction between MAC addresses and IP addresses. A quick explanation of ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) ties the crucial concepts of the video together..

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