why we need MAC address in data link layer?

Answer Posted / bhavin jani

MAC (Media Access Control), It is Unique Physical Address
of any Network device, it’s L2 Base address, because of
it’s Unique & all network device are programmed on based of
their L2 Mac base algorithms,
It’s faster than the L3, L2 Have Unique Hardware Identity
that is call MAC, because always hardware base is faster
than Software Base L3, so L2 Can Make Fast Communication
then L3

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