August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
21h 5m
English
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IP Addressing
Each TCP/IP host is identified by an IP address. The IP address is a Internet layer address and has no dependence on the MAC address of a network interface card. A unique IP address is required for each host and network component that communicates using TCP/IP.
When TCP/IP is first initialized, ARP requests are broadcast for the IP addresses of the local host. The number of ARPs to send is controlled by the ArpRetryCount Registry parameter, which defaults to three.
If another host replies to any of these ARPs, the IP address is already in use. When this happens, the IP of the offending address is disabled and an error message is displayed. An event is also logged on the machine whose address was challenged, if it is a Windows NT ...