W10L5 Ethernet Addresses

Question 1

How many bits is a mac address?

Answer 1

48 bits (6 bytes)

Question 2

Ethernet has a flat addressing scheme - what does this mean?

Answer 2

the address of a particular host doesn’t define anything about where that host is

Question 3

What does MAC stand for?

Answer 3

Medium Access Control

Question 4

Promiscuous mode

Answer 4

Receiver looks at every passing message (Sends every message it receives to OS)

Question 5

Broadcast MAC address

Answer 5

FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF

Question 6

Multicast MAC address

Answer 6

X[bbb1]:xx:xx:xx:xx
The least significant bit of the most significant byte is 1
If the second hex character odd then multicast
even then unicast

Question 7

Unicast MAC address

Answer 7

X[bbb1]:xx:xx:xx:xx
The least significant bit of the most significant byte is 1
If the second hex character odd then multicast
even then unicast

Question 8

the address of a particular host doesn’t define anything about where that host is

Answer 8

Ethernet has a flat addressing scheme - what does this mean?

Question 9

Receiver looks at every passing message (Sends every message it receives to OS)

Answer 9

Promiscuous mode