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In Typical TCP/IP Communications Across the Internet, Is the Source MAC Address Known at the Destination?

December 11, 2011

In other words, is the source MAC address (from the originating node) readable in the packet that ultimately reaches the destination node or is it stripped when the packet moves from node to node?

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TelephoneMan April 29, 2009 at 9:25 am

The MAC address exists in Layer 2 of the OSI model. It cannot propagate across Layer 3 boundries (networks).

Because of this, if traffic is routed by at least one router or layer 3 switch, the source/destination mac addresses will be changed. This change will occur on every network segment the packet has to cross between the source and destination.

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