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MAC address
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English
Noun
en computing networking Media Access Control address; a unique identifying number assigned to most network devices.
en 1999 Nen-Fu Huang; Shi-Ming Zhao; Jen-Yi Pan; Chi-An Su 3 1430 IEEE INFOCOM '99. Conference on Computer Communications. Proceedings. Eighteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. The Future is Now (Cat. No.99CH36320) A Fast IP Routing Lookup Scheme for Gigabit Switching Routers 10.1109/INFCOM.1999.752163 The MAC address substitution module then substitutes the source MAC address and the destination MAC address of the packet before it is forwarded into the interface port. The source MAC address is replaced by that of the output interface, and the destination MAC address is replaced by that of the immediate next hop (a router or the destination host).
en 2017 Jeremy Martin; et al. 2017 4 379 Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies A Study of MAC Address Randomization in Mobile Devices and When it Fails 10.1515/popets-2017-0054 Our analysis illustrates that MAC address randomization policies are neither universally implemented nor effective at eliminating privacy concerns.
en 2020 Jon Buhagiar CCNA Certification Practice Tests: Exam 200-301 Wiley 258 978-1-119-66988-3 MAC addresses are learned by the source MAC address on incoming frames to the switch, not the destination frames.
Translations
Media Access Control address
Catalan: ca adreça MAC f
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue MAC地址 mek1 dei6 zi2, yue 媒體存取控制地址 mui4 tai2 cyun4 ceoi2 hung3 zai3 dei6 zi2
Mandarin: cmn MAC地址 māk dìzhǐ, cmn 媒體存取控制地址 méitǐ cúnqǔ kòngzhì dìzhǐ, cmn MAC位址 māk wèizhǐ Taiwan, cmn 媒體存取控制位址 méitǐ cúnqǔ kòngzhì wèizhǐ Taiwan
Esperanto: eo MAC-adreso
Estonian: et MAC-aadress
Finnish: fi MAC-osoite
French: fr adresse MAC f
German: de MAC-Adresse f
Indonesian: id alamat kendali akses media
Italian: it indirizzo MAC m
Japanese: ja MACアドレス
Korean: ko MAC 주소
Polish: pl adres MAC m
Portuguese: pt endereço MAC m
Spanish: es dirección MAC f
Vietnamese: vi địa chỉ điều khiển truy cập thiết bị, vi địa chỉ truy cập thiết bị
See also
en ARP
en LAN
en MAC-48
en EUI
en EUI-48
en EUI-64