Advantages of MAC
- The devices that connect to the network have no free attachment cost associated with it.
- The router or switch has policy set on them. Either it has permitted equipment attached or non-permitted equipment attached irrespective of the person attaching it.
- The MAC addresses for all the devices on the same network subnet are different. Hence, Diagnosing Network issues relating to IP address, etc. are easy because of the usefulness of MAC Addresses.
- A network administrator feels reliability in identifying senders and receivers of data on the network with the help of MAC address. The only reason behind is that unlike dynamic IP addresses, the MAC addresses doesn’t change from time to time.
MAC Full Form
MAC stands for Media Access Control.
MAC address is defined as the identification number for the hardware. In general, the network interface cards (NIC) of each computer such as Wi-Fi Card, Bluetooth or Ethernet Card has unchangeable MAC address embedded by the vendor at the time of manufacturing. Dell, Nortel, Belkin, and Cisco are some of the well known NIC manufacturers. One can change the given default address of the device by replacing the NIC cards.