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Why can't routers use MAC addresses instead of private/local IP addresses?
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I understand the reason public IP addresses are necessary to be that if we only had MAC to move data between one host and another, the entire Internet would be one massively flat network. But what is the need for private IP addresses? Why can't routers just connect to local clients using their MAC …
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The answer is your software applications and operating system are designed to communicate using TCP/IP, not directly with Ethernet MAC addressing. So regardless of whether the remote computer/node you wish to communicate with is in your local networ…
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