Difference Between IP Address and Mac Address in Details

IP ADDRESS

MAC ADDRESS

  • It’s a temporary
  • Its work on 3rd layer of osi model i.e n/w layer
  • Process of change ip address and mac address is called spoofing.
  • IP address is 2 types
  • Ipv4 and ipv6 which is 32 bits /4 Byte and 128 bites/16 Byte respectively
  • IP address also called as logical address
  • Ipv4 have 4 octets each will be of 0 to 255
  • Each octet will be of 8 bit
  • Each octet separate by. (dot)
  • Ipv6 is 128 bits
  • Ipv4 developed by DARPA
  • Ipv6 developed by defense advanced research projects agency
  • IP address identify device on the internet
  • IP address command ipconfig
  • Ipv-4 in decimal format
  • IPV-6 IN HEXADECIMAL FORMAT
  • IP ADDRESS FOUNDER VINT CERF
  • MANAGED BY IANA
  • IP ADRESS IN INDIA ASSIGNED BY APNIC
  • IP ADDRESS CAN BE CHANGE USING

 

 

  • It’s a permanent
  • Its work on 2nd layer of OSI model
  • Address and mac address is called spoofing.
  • Mac address is 48 bits
  • It’s also called as Ethernet address /physical address/ burned-in address  
  • Developed by Xerox Parcy
  • Address of networking device
  • Mac address command = getmac
  • Mac address is also in hexadecimal format

 

        

 

 

IP Address:

Class: A

N/W

HOST

HOST

HOST

 

CLASS B

N/W

N/W

HOST

HOST

 

CLASS C                                                            

N/W

N/W

N/W

HOST

 Note:
Class A have 8 bit Network Address and 24 Bit Host Address.
Class B have 16 bit Network Address and 16 Bit Host Address.
Class CA have 24 bit Network Address and 8 Bit Host Address.

Class A, B, C are unicasting (one to one communication)

  • Class d is multicasting
  • Class e is broadcasting

IP ADRESS CLASSES

            CLASS

RANGE

N/W/HOSTS

A

1 - 126

N.H.H.H

B

128 -191

N.NH.H.H

C

191-223

N.N.N.H

D

224-239

Reserved for multicasting

E

240-254

Experimental, reserved for research


Class A Addresses

127.0.0.1- 127.255.255.255                                        

MAC Address /Physical Address

  • It’s written on NIC Cards of a system
  • It will be 12 Bit
  • It will be 12 digit hexadecimal format
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