Could IP be redesigned to use hardware addresses instead of the IP addresses it currently uses? Why or why not?
What will be an ideal response?
MAC addresses cannot be used, because the Internet can include multiple network
technologies and each technology can define its own MAC addresses. But if the Internet were to be
designed from the beginning, for sure so many things would be different, probably much easier.
Backward compatibility and various tries by different companies made the system complicated.
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