Re: OT - ARP request ?
On 14 Mar 2001 01:37:27 -0700, Jimmy Richards wrote:
> Hello There,
>
> I don't know too much about it, other than what it stands for Address
> Resolution Protocol.
> I know it's considered to be a 'low-level' protocol.
> The following is from my 'Desktop Computer Encylopedia 2nd Edition'.
> Anything in parentheses was
> added by me....
>
> ARP
> Address Resolution Protocol
>
> A TCP/IP protocol used to obtain a node's physical address(maybe
> they mean MAC address by this?).
> A client station broadcats an ARP request onto the network(so you will
> see ARP requests for other machines)
> with the IP address of the target node it wishes to communicate with,
> and the node with that address responds
> by sending back it's physical address so that packets can be
> transmitted. ARP returns the layer 2 address for
> a layer 3 address.
> Since an ARP gets the message to the target machine, one might
> wonder why bother with IP addresses in
> the first place. The reason is that ARP requests are broadcast onto the
> network, requiring every station in the
> subnet to process the request. See RARP.
>
>
> Hope that helped explain it!
>
> Jimmy Richards
>
>
>
>
> On 14 Mar 2001 08:49:07 +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
> > I know this is absolutelly out of theme, but I am sure somebody may be
> > able to help me.
> > What is an ARP request?
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