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IBM developerWorks : Linux : Education - Tutorials | |
These hardware addresses are used as unique addresses for individual systems on your Ethernet LAN. Using hardware addresses, one machine can, for example, send an Ethernet frame addressed to another machine. The problem with this approach is that TCP/IP-based communication uses a different kind of addressing scheme, using what are called IP addresses instead. IP addresses look something like this: 192.168.1.1 |
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