On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 16:05, Corey Edwards wrote: > > When is the RARP protocol used? > > Rarely
Frequently if you're booting SparcStations and doing diskless workstations. Fortunately under linux this is now implemented as a user-space daemon. Michael > > > Why do we have both IP and MAC addresses? Wouldn't just one of the two do > > nicely? (I guess routers would have to route based on MAC address...) > > If you look at how IPv6 is designed it can use the MAC address as the > bottom 48 bits of the address. But the reason we have separate addresses > is because not everybody who uses IP also uses ethernet. There's ATM and > Token Ring for instance. And not everybody who uses ethernet uses IP, > such as NetBEUI and IPX. > > Corey > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
