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What is the main difference between IP and MAC address ?

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Umm... the MAC is the physical hardware address of the card. The IP is a representation used for network communication under the TCP/IP protocols.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address

MAC is in Network layer of OSI model? and IP is in Data link layer?
Got it thanks all

(2011-11-16, 03:26 PM)sunjava1 Wrote: [ -> ]MAC is in Network layer of OSI model? and IP is in Data link layer?

Not quite...

Here's a few other good images for this:

Thanks Dylan M and Ranjani. It was informative

What's the difference between a phone number and your social security number?

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