Difference Between IP and MAC Addresses

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RAJESH

Difference between IP address and MAC address. If a system has IP address is it require a MAC address.

I have seen that OWS, EWS are having both IP address and MAC address. I want to know why is it so?
 
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David Ferguson

Google it.........short answer, yes you have both MAC is a hardware address assigned at factory of Ethernet device makers (theoretically unique in the world), IP is a software assigned address that is theoretically unique at least within the network it is part of.........beyond that it gets deep.

Dave Ferguson
Control Systems Engineer

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