On 1 Oct 2003, Holden Hao wrote:
..
> Very interesting.  Which program does arp? route? kernel?  What is its
> purpose? To make the communication between PCs on the same subnet
> faster?  Does arp send requests on a regular interval such that you can
> have the opportunity to poison other PCs arp cache?

ARP does IP address to MAC address mapping. It's part of the stack.


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