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Media Access Control (MAC) address
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The hardware address of a network device, also called the Ethernet address (on Ethernet devices) or NIC address.
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A unique identifier assigned to network adapters by the manufacturer. This address is six octets in length (12 characters) and is written in hexadecimal. 48bit address.
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