May 2018
Beginner
230 pages
4h 49m
English
A host machine might want to send a message to another machine in the same subnet. The host machine only knows the IP address, while the MAC address is required to send the message at the data-link layer. In this situation, the host machine broadcasts the ARP request. All machines in the subnet receive the message. The Ethernet-protocol type of the value is 0x806.
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