On Wednesday 07 April 2004 07:56 pm, rikona wrote: > RU> The IP address refers to the address of the machine through a > particular RU> network port. > > RU> The Ethernet address refers to a particular network card. > > I'm not sure I understand the difference for one computer with one > NIC. Wouldn't they both be equivalent to 192.168.0.4, for example?
No, the ip address or the nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn as you called it is a software assigned address. The xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx address is hardcoded into the nic and each nic has a unique one. This is called a mac address. A dhcp server will read the mac address and use this to reserve a specific ip address for a machine throughout the lease period, but they are not related in any way. -- /g
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