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Glossary of Data Communications Terms
Courtesy Enterprise-Wide Computing, Inc.
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Term:
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Definition:
Used to dynamically discover the low level physical network
hardware address that corresponds to the high level IP
address for a given host. ARP is limited to physical
network systems that support broadcast packets that can be
heard by all hosts on the network. It is defined in RFC
826. See also: proxy ARP.
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