What’s the difference between a MAC address and an IP address?

Remember your OSI reference model layers. A MAC address is a ‘physical’ address (used to identify the networking card that’s talking on the data link layer). An IP address is a network address.

References:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address