Network Hardware
Network Hardware
MAC Address
An example MAC address - the first part identifying the manufacturer and the second part
identify the device
MAC IP
Dynamic IP:
● Each time the computer rejoins a network its IP address changes
Static IP:
● When a computer leaves and rejoins a network the IP address doesn’t change
Router
● A router is an important piece of network hardware. It connects one network to
another network
○ This means it can be used to connect a local area network (LAN ) to the
internet, which is a wide area network(WAN )
● An important role of the router is to analyse data packet and direct them on to
their destination