Multiple choice

What is the size of a MAC address?

  1. 48 bits

  2. 12 bits

  3. 1 byte

  4. 3 bytes

  5. 32 bits
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Explanation

The original IEEE 802 MAC address comes from the original Xerox Ethernet addressing scheme. This 48-bit address space contains potentially 248 or 281,474,976,710,656 possible MAC addresses.

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