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Understanding basic network concepts
From the course: CompTIA Tech+ (FC0-U71) Cert Prep
Understanding basic network concepts
- Networking is all about communicating. Computing devices can communicate across great distances if they have the right information and the communication can be routed correctly. So how do we accomplish this? Well, first we need what's known as a MAC address. Simply it's a number assigned by the manufacturer that is unique to the network interface card of the device we're planning to connect to. The MAC address is made up of a 12 digit hexadecimal number. If we look at a command prompt and use the command config, we can type in an IP config and we can see the MAC addresses and the IP addresses for the ethernet adapters in our machine. Now we have two. This is our main one right here, and if we look at the physical address right here, we can see this hexadecimal number here. That is the unique MAC address for this network interface card. Now, the secondary one, just in case somebody has a question, this actually comes from our virtual box VM. So if you remember in an earlier episode…
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