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A Media Access Control address (MAC address) is a unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications on the physical network segment.
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Is the MAC address encapsulated in the Internet packets?
Wikipedia is awesome: it contains a lot of useful information. In this case, the following schema:
So there are basically 46 bits for global unicast MAC addresses, for 246 possible addresses.
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In a LAN environment, can you fake the IP address while also being able to receive the respo...
A network switch works by inspecting packets as they come and go. When a switch sees that a packet arrives on a given port, bearing the source MAC address X, then the switch remembers that the machine …
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Is it possible to detect when a device has been MAC filtered on a Wi-Fi network?
MAC filtering is implemented by, indeed, ignoring packets whose source MAC address is deemed "inappropriate" by the access point. You won't get a response packet informing you that the access point do …
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Does TCP/IP protocol offer a reliable way of determining who the actual sender was?
The common, low-level attackers (i.e. people in their home) cannot efficiently spoof their IP address for TCP connection because they will not receive answers. Remember that IP routes packets based on …
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