Every network adapter has what is called a Media Access Control address that uniquely identifies it. Think of it as an ID. Having to manually go to every computer on the network, and taking the time ...

I think you need to supply more details...<BR><BR>Are you trying to do the name/ip lookup on some other machine than the one whose MAC address you have? <BR><BR>The translation between IP and MAC ...

One of our older PC's has the same MAC address as one of our new machines. I thought that MAC addresses were supposed to be unique. I wouldn't suppose 3Com would reuse addresses after a certain time ...

A Media Access Control (MAC) address, sometimes referred to as a hardware or physical address, is a unique, 12-character alphanumeric attribute that is used to identify individual electronic devices ...

ARP or Address Resolution Protocol in Windows is responsible for resolving IP addresses to MAC addresses to speed up connection over a local network. So instead of asking the router where a particular ...