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DE Shaw Interview Question for Software Engineer/Developer about Terminology

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  1. jem
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    Posted 1 year ago #

    What is MAC Address? How many bits does it consists of?

  2. frisky
    Member
    Posted 9 months ago #

    MAC address (Media Access Control address ) is a unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications on the physical network segment. MAC addresses are most often assigned by the manufacturer of a NIC (network interface card) and are stored in its hardware.

    It consist of 6 bytes (48 bits).The standard (IEEE 802) format for printing MAC-48 addresses form is six groups of two hexadecimal digits.


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