Question:
1. Open a command prompt window, type ipconfig/ all and press Enter.
2. Write down the information for your system’s active network connection(most likely either Ethernet or Wi-Fi).
* Physical address in paired hexadecimal form.
* Physical address expressed in binary form.
Answer:
00000000 11111111 00000011 10111110 10001100 11011010
Explanation:
(i)First, open a command prompt window by using the shortcut: Windows key + X then select command prompt in the list.
(ii)Now type ipconfig/ all and press Enter. This will return a few information
(a) To get the Physical address in paired hexadecimal form, copy any of the Physical Addresses shown. E.g
00-FF-03-BE-8C-DA
This is the hexadecimal form of the physical address.
(b) Now let's convert the physical address into its binary form as follows;
To convert to binary from hexadecimal, we can use the following table;
Hex | Decimal | Binary
0 | 0 | 0000
1 | 1 | 0001
2 | 2 | 0010
3 | 3 | 0011
4 | 4 | 0100
5 | 5 | 0101
6 | 6 | 0110
7 | 7 | 0111
8 | 8 | 1000
9 | 9 | 1001
A | 10 | 1010
B | 11 | 1011
C | 12 | 1100
D | 13 | 1101
E | 14 | 1110
F | 15 | 1111
Now, from the table;
0 = 0000
0 = 0000
F = 1111
F = 1111
0 = 0000
3 = 0011
B = 1011
E = 1110
8 = 1000
C = 1100
D = 1101
A = 1010
Put together, 00-FF-03-BE-8C-DA becomes;
00000000 11111111 00000011 10111110 10001100 11011010
PS: Please make sure there is a space between ipconfig/ and all
