And that is why a MAC address is often referred to as a BIA (burned in address).
Tom Lisa, Instructor, CCNA, CCAI
Community College of Southern Nevada
Cisco Regional Networking Academy
Christopher Larson wrote:
> How would the IP Unicast know where to go? It has to resolve to a machine
> address. If you wanted to get to a machine without ARP you would be
> constantly broadcasting IP. And then the machine would respond, but you
> still wouldn't be able to get to it because IP's logically identify a host.
> A mac address identifies it physically and is actually "burned" into the NIC
> card.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Cisco man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: ARP Broadcast
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Could any one explain why ARP needs to broadcast when looking for the MAC
> > address. Why not send a unicast using the given IP address.
> >
> > Regards to all
> >
> > Vapian
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