A Media Entry Management (MAC) deal with, also referred to as a bodily deal with or {hardware} deal with, is a novel identifier assigned to a community interface controller (NIC) to be used as a communications deal with in a community section. MAC addresses are utilized in most IEEE 802 networking applied sciences, together with Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth.
MAC addresses are usually written as a string of 12 hexadecimal digits, separated by colons, e.g., “00:11:22:33:44:55”. The primary 24 bits of the MAC deal with are assigned by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) to the producer of the NIC, and the remaining 24 bits are assigned by the producer to the particular NIC.