physical addressing

<networking>

The low level addressing scheme used on Ethernet. The 48-bit destination Ethernet address in a packet is compared with the receiving node's Ethernet address.

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Last updated: 1994-12-23

Nearby terms:

physical address ♦ physical addressing ♦ physical file ♦ physical layer

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