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MAC Address over WAN

rsabapathee
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Is the MAC address of a device carried over a WAN link? (eg Internet)

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Kevin Dorrell
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Level 10

Only if you are bridging or layer-2unneling. Usually, the LAN layer-2 header is stripped off the packet, and a new layer-2 header added that describes the WAN link.

The MAC address is only significant within a LAN. As soon as you cross a router boundary, the MAC address changes hop-by-hop.

Kevin Dorrell

Luxembourg