What is the difference between physical address and logical-02140
This subjective question is related to the book/course
vu mgt603 Strategic Management.
It can also be found in
vu mgt603 Mid Term Solved Past Paper No. 1.
A Physical address is a 48-bit flat address burned into the ROM of the NIC card which is a Layer1 device of the OSI model. This is divided into 24-bit vendor code and 24-bit serial address. This is unique for each system and cannot be changed.
A Logical address is a 32- bit address assigned to each system in a network. This works in Layer-3 of OSI Model. This would be generally the IP address. Simply we can say that Physical address is MAC address (Media Access Control) which inbuilt and Logical Address is the IP which is given manually. The address generated by CPU is referred to as a logical address. The address seen by the memory unit, i.e, the one loaded into the memory address register of the memory is referred to as physical address
