Guest KellyWayper@gmail.com Posted August 13, 2008 Posted August 13, 2008 Whats address resolution protocol for? is it similar to DNS, why we cant just use dns instead of arp?
Guest David H. Lipman Posted August 13, 2008 Posted August 13, 2008 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 -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
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