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ON LAN communication is Purely On MAC, then why do the need of IP Address on LAN ?

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Question added by Zeeshan Ahmed , Deputy Assistant Director(OPERATIONS) , National Savings
Date Posted: 2016/05/30
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Shuvo Malakar
by Shuvo Malakar , Overall Banking Performance , Sonali Bank Ltd.

Because MAC addresses are only usable across the local network segment, we use IP addresses to communicate with other segments via routers. Meanwhile, for local targets, ARP is used to translate IPs into MAC addresses and the MAC addresses are used from then on in the conversation.

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