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Hi,
The MAC address is written in a ROM on the network card.
Each MAC@ is unique, the firsts bits telling which constructor it is.
Even though the MAC is in a ROM, it is possible to logically chnage it, meaning that it's used as a source / dest address in each ethernet frames, and these frames can be build with another address than the one written in the ROM (thst's usefull for load-balancing, clustering... and for hacking)
An interface not connected has a MAC address, but since it won't listen nor emit, the MAC@'s here but useless.
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