Ip and Mac Addressing

Question 1

What is mac addressing used for

Answer 1

Route frames on a LAN. Each mac address is unique to every NIC, IP addressing is to route packets on a WAN

Question 2

What is are the 2 forms of ip addresses

Answer 2

Ipv4:32 bits in size,written as 4 numbers seperated by periods,each number in range of 0-255,l.
Ipv6:128 bits in size, written as 8 groups sepersted by colons, each group made up kf four hex values representing 16 bits

Question 3

Whats an NIC

Answer 3

A hardware that helps computer to connect to network