Friday 4 May 2018

networking - IP Address vs MAC addresses


why do we need ip addresses if mac address is enough to identify the machine???



Answer



IP addresses are hierarchical, so that routers throughout the internet know which direction to forward a packet. With MAC addresses, there is no hierarchy, and thus packet forwarding would not be possible.


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