The Requirement of Networking
- Transmission Media (Cable or Radio/Wireless)
- Address (MAC Address and IP Address)
- Route/Routing
MAC (Media Access Control) Address is an address to refer physical Hardware. In figure below is representation of computer's MAC address. To check MAC address in computer can use CMD (type getmac) and using Control Panel - Network and Sharing - Internet Connection - Details - Physical Address.
Destination MAC address (six bytes) and Sender MAC address (six bytes). The MAC address contains of 6 octets and separated by hyphens (xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx)
MAC stands for Media Access Control. It’s either a 48-bit or 64-bit address given to a network adapter at the time of a computer’s manufacture.
(Link)
> getmac
> getmac /?
> getmac /v /fo list or getmac /fo list /v or getmac /fo table /v
> getmac >d:\mygetmac.txt
MAC Address is actually not representation of you computer, but hardware in your computer (Wireless, or Port Connection), like in MAC address in above is refer to Wireless Hardware
>ipconfig
