Chapter 9

Address Resolution

Objectives

Upon completion of this chapter, you will be able to answer the following questions:

  • What are the roles of the MAC address and the IP address?

  • What is the purpose of ARP?

  • What is the operation of IPv6 neighbor discovery?

Key Terms

This chapter uses the following key terms. You can find the definitions in the glossary at the end of the book.

physical address page 298

logical address page 298

ARP table page 302

ARP cache page 302

Introduction (9.0)

Hosts and routers both create routing tables to ensure that they can send and receive data across networks. So how does this information get created in a routing table? As a network administrator, you could enter these MAC and IP addresses manually. But ...

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