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15. In your response to Question 13, you stated that the source and destination
addresses of an IEEE 802.3 frame are “MAC sublayer addresses,” but you also
called them “hardware addresses.” Please elaborate.
Certainly. We explain this in Box 5.1. As you read this box, it is important to note that
a MAC sublayer address is not the same as an Internet address. The MAC sublayer address
is nothing more than the hardware address of a particular node. If the node is connected to
an Ethernet/802.3 network, then we refer to the hardware address as the Ethernet/802.3
address. If the node is connected ...
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