Definitions for personalËpÉr sÉ nl. Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word personal. Princeton's WordNet(4.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition: personal(adj) a short newspaper article about a particular person or group. personal(adj) concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality.
A media access control address (MAC address), also called physical address, is a unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications on the physical network segment.MAC addresses are used as a network address for most IEEE 802 network technologies, including Ethernet and WiFi.Logically, MAC addresses are used in the media access control protocol sublayer of the OSI reference model.AC addresses are used as a network address for most IEEE 802 network technologies, including Ethernet and WiFi. Logically, MAC addresses are used in the media access control protocol sublayer of the OSI reference model.
While an IP address can potentially be assigned to any device, a MAC address is burned into a given device from the factory. A MAC address takes the form of six pairs of hexadecimal digits, usually separated by colons or dashes and will look something like this: 01:1F:33:69:BC:14.ust as DNS matches a Web site name to an IP address on the Internet, a technology called ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) matches an IP address to the corresponding MAC address of a specific device to which that IP address is currently assigned.