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I understand that the MAC address is flashed on the NIC. It is supposed to be unique as is is used by ARP/RARP protocol to map IP to MAC and vice versa. The MAC address needs to be unique otherwise the data delivery will fail. I am wondering the NIC card manufactures are many. How do they ensure that the MAC address is unqiue? If it is not unique then the transmission will fail right? Do they speak to each other that I am using this MAC address, don't use this one? I guess this is not the case.
The first 6 bytes of the MAC address are a prefix that is assigned to each manufacturer by the IEEE. Manufacturer must only use prefixes that are assigned to them, and then they're responsible for ensuring that the remainder of the MAC address is unique within their products.
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When you configurate some interface for a device using 'ifconfig eth0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx up' what's the difference bettween using IP like '192.168.0.2' and '192.168.0.2/30'.
I understand the idea of a submask and that it's good use for redirect datagrams only taking part of the IP address but I dont get why using it when assinging the IP for some interface.
I found out that using the submask when for assigning the IP address establish the range for the broadcast direction.
So using direction like '192.168.0.2' will establish broadcast on '192.168.0.255' but using '192.168.0.2/30' will use '192.168.0.3' since its the last avaible direction when you taking the first 30 bits.
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I am working on a small embedded device based upon an STM32F4xx MCU. It implements a TCP/IP server over a Wi-Fi connection. The question I have relates to exposing the IP address of the device so that it may be discovered by computers on the same network. UPnP and SSDP seem to be rather "heavy" solutions to this problem.
Are there other techniques/protocols that have a smaller footprint than UPnP and SSDP?
Thanks in advance for your input,
Sid
If you can make up any custom protocol, a simple UDP beacon periodically sent to the broadcast address (255.255.255.255 or your preferred interface's broadcast address) is simple and reliable.
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For listing in mainstream platforms' (Windows, Linux, OS X) network views, the best option would likely be to implement the full stack required for Windows' Network Discovery.
If hostname lookup is enough, Netbios or mDNS could be enough.
The search term you are likely looking for is zero-configuration networking and should give you all the available options
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I have mounted two ethernet adapter on my pc and each of them has connected to a seperate network. The problem is that only one of them is active at a same time. In other verb I can ping only through one of them at the same time and if l want to ping another network l should disable the first adapter. So now l want to know how can I use both of them same time.
Avoid assigning multiple adapters in the same computer to the same subnet.When configuring multiple NICs, each NIC should communicate with a different subnet. Configuring two or more NICs on the same subnet may cause communication problems. Delve deeper in this article. There're also example scenarios using two adapters
Also you just can assign 192.168.0.16 to the first adapter, and 192.168.1.16 to another
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I've a simple question about IP and MAC.
Lets say we have two LANs, A and B, connected by a Bridge (no Network Layer). We have host 'X', which sends an IP packet to host 'Y'. It will send it through a MAC frame. The Payload of that MAC Frame will be our ip packet.
The question is: since X doesn't know Y's MAC Address, which MAC Destination Address will be used in the Frame's Header?
Thank you for your time.
If the X doesn't know the MAC address of Y it will first send an ARP request to ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (broadcast) requesting the MAC address for the IP address of Y. Y will respond with it's MAC address which X will then use as a destination MAC address to send the frame.
Btw, since the bridge is in between they're actually on the same LAN, not A and B.
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I know they are address schemes used in different layers, and that IPV4 is 32 bits while MAC is 48 bits.
My questions are:
Why do we need two different address schemes?
What is the problem if we decided to use the same address for both purposes?
Is there a reason for the MAC address requiring more memory?
Has the introduction of ipv6 changed anything?
MAC addresses is a Layer 2 Address, while IP is a Layer 3 Address.
Layer 1 is phisical layer
Layer 2 is data link layer ---> MAC ADDRESS
Layer 3 is Network Layer ---> IP Address
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model