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NIC Card is which layer device ?

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Vikash Gupta
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I searched on the internet but i got confuse it's layer 1 or layer 2 device.

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Amit Boran
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Hi Vikas,

The Network interface Card is a layer 2 hardware according to OSI model. Because the NIC have a physical address (MAC). When the NIC sends data , it includes its mac address in the header as a source mac. 

 

 

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