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  2. MAC address - Wikipedia

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    The Individual Address Block (IAB) is an inactive registry which has been replaced by the MA-S (MAC address block, small), previously named OUI-36, and has no overlaps in addresses with the IAB [6] registry product as of January 1, 2014. The IAB uses an OUI from the MA-L (MAC address block, large) registry, previously called the OUI registry.

  3. Message authentication code - Wikipedia

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    The term message integrity code (MIC) is frequently substituted for the term MAC, especially in communications [1] to distinguish it from the use of the latter as media access control address (MAC address). However, some authors [2] use MIC to refer to a message digest, which aims only to uniquely but opaquely identify a single message.

  4. MAC address anonymization - Wikipedia

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    MAC address anonymization performs a one-way function on a MAC address so that the result may be used in tracking systems for reporting and the general public, ...

  5. MAC filtering - Wikipedia

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    In computer networking, MAC address filtering is a network access control method whereby the MAC address assigned to each network interface controller is used to determine access to the network. MAC addresses are uniquely assigned to each card, so using MAC filtering on a network permits and denies network access to specific devices through the ...

  6. Internet geolocation - Wikipedia

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    An IP address is assigned to each device (e.g. computer, printer) participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. The protocol specifies that each IP packet must have a header which contains, among other things, the IP address of the sender.

  7. MAC flooding - Wikipedia

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    In computer networking, a media access control attack or MAC flooding is a technique employed to compromise the security of network switches.The attack works by forcing legitimate MAC table contents out of the switch and forcing a unicast flooding behavior potentially sending sensitive information to portions of the network where it is not normally intended to go.

  8. Direct memory access - Wikipedia

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    The DMA command is issued by specifying a pair of a local address and a remote address: for example when a SPE program issues a put DMA command, it specifies an address of its own local memory as the source and a virtual memory address (pointing to either the main memory or the local memory of another SPE) as the target, together with a block size.

  9. User interface - Wikipedia

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    The Xfce desktop environment offers a graphical user interface following the desktop metaphor.. In the industrial design field of human–computer interaction, a user interface (UI) is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur.