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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Difference between Mac and IP addresses Post 302541712 by theKbStockpiler on Monday 25th of July 2011 11:39:26 AM
Old 07-25-2011
Still quite foggy on this one.

When is just a Mac addressed used?

When is just a IP address used?

When are they both used in the same packet?

In some docs. it looks like the Mac address is only used from the network to the host but this is contradicted in other docs.

Why do the layers matter?

Thanks again! Edit: It looks like the term IP address should actually be IP Name because it is really not an address but an indirect way to aquire it.

Last edited by theKbStockpiler; 07-25-2011 at 11:59 PM.. Reason: Add info
 

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NAME
rovclock - utility to control frequency rates of your Radeon card SYNOPSIS
rovclock [options] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the rovclock command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. rovclock is a program that allow you to control frequency rates of your Radeon card. OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below. -i Show info of your Radeon card. -x N Manually define xtal frequency to N KHz. It tries to detect the reference clock (xtal) from the video BIOS, if this doesn't work you can specify it manually with -t. Try 1432 or 2950 if the default value of 2700 does not work. -c N Set core clock to N MHz. -m N Set memory clock to N MHz. -t name:val Set memory timings. SEE ALSO
/usr/share/doc/rovclock/README, radeontool(1). This is quick and stupid manpage which merges some information from README and rovclock itself. AUTHOR
rovclock was written by Hasw (hasw@hasw.net). This manual page was written by Alexander Gerasiov <gq@cs.msu.su>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 2006-03-05 ROVCLOCK(8)
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