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Re: how to get mac address



Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. writes:
> MAC addresses are not normally used for network identification outside
> of their segment.  In addition, none of the higher level protocols in
> common use contain the MAC address in their headers.

The reason being that said network segments are not necessarily Ethernet
at all.
-- 
John Hasler


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