whats ARP (address resolution protocol)?

[Guest KellyWayper@gmail.com]

Whats address resolution protocol for? is it similar to DNS, why we

cant just use dns instead of arp?

[Guest David H. Lipman]

Re: whats ARP (address resolution protocol)?

 

From: <KellyWayper@gmail.com>

 

| Whats address resolution protocol for? is it similar to DNS, why we

| cant just use dns instead of arp?

 

DNS works between IP address and name resolution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System

 

ARP works btween MAC address and IP address.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Resolution_Protocol

 

Basically working on a different layer of the OSI model.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osi_model

 

 

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