The way in which the LAN manages the access to the physical transmission medium.
Address
A normally unique designator for location of data or the identity of a peripheral
device, which allows each device on a single communications line to respond to its
own message.
Address resolution protocol (ARP)
A TCP/IP process used by a ...
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