When you think about networking, IP addresses are probably the first things that come to mind. But there’s another type of network address called a MAC address that actually forms the foundation upon ...

The Mac’s Systems Preferences Network applet enables configuring network settings, while the Network Utility (found within Applications\Utilities) provides a graphical interface for troubleshooting ...

Change the MAC address of your network card. Techies know that everyone’s network adapter has what is calleda MAC (Media Access Control) address that uniquely identifies it.Each is as individual as a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Subnets, as described in the last “Transition to Digital” tutorial, divide up a network into ...

At one time, a typical Mac user would no more have connected a couple of computers to the Internet via a local network than they would have extracted their own kidney. If you just mentioned the word ...

MAC Address or Media Access Control Address is a unique address or identifier assigned to network interfaces. MAC Addresses are mostly assigned by the manufacturers but can be manually changed later ...

On the bridge vs. switch conversation, yes, a switch is just a multi-port bridge. Bridges don't replace mac addresses in the packets, routers do. Bridges relay the mac addresses that need to go to the ...

The MAC address of your computer is the static physical address of the hardware your computer uses to connect to the network. This is in opposition to your computers IP address, which changes and ...

TCP/IP is likely the most commonly used pair of protocols in the world and will be the focus of this tutorial. Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is software that resides on the computer; when the ...