Types of ethernet addresses

• Typically one interrupt per packet received

  • Interrupts cost a lot of CPU performance!

• Use ethernet addresses to be able to filter packets in ethernet receiver hardware

• First 3 bytes (actually, only 22 bits) assigned by IEEE

  • Organisational Unique Identifier

• 3 types of addresses:

  • Unicast, Multicast, Broadcast

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