88 The ABCs of TCP/IP
address and request the assignment of an IP address from an RARP server
that receives the request. Upon receipt of the RARP request, the server checks
its database for an entry that associates the hardware address received in the
request to an IP address previously configured for the hardware address. If
the server locates an applicable entry, it will transmit a frame to the hardware
address of the workstation requesting an IP address with the station’s assigned
address. If the IP address does not exist in the server’s database, by design
it will not respond to the RARP Request and the workstation will terminate
its effort to participate on the network.
The RARP frame format is the same as for ARP. The key difference between
the ...