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What is Ethernet and TCP/IP and how do they differ?

April 26, 2017differ Ethernet IP TCP

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What is Ethernet and TCP/IP and how do they differ?

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A. Both are protocols – that is the definition of how to interpret bits on wires (or in packets) into meaningful conversations. Ethernet is the lower level, wire (or wireless) protocol, concerned with moving the physical bits of data. TCP/IP is the higher-level protocol, which explains how to interpret the block of bits (frame). TCP/IP uses a familiar 32-bit “IP” address, e.g. 192.168.0.1. Ethernet uses a less familiar, 48 bit unique to the NIC (some times called “burned in”) address, e.g. 00:40:05:DE:AD:00. This is called the MAC (Media Access Control) address.