September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1680 pages
88h 3m
English
Before the DHCP service was developed, two predecessors provided the first implementations of automated IP addressing. The first was the Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP), and the second was the Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP).
To understand RARP, an IT administrator should first understand the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP). Each network adapter, wired or wireless, has a unique address burned into it. This address never changes and it called the Media Access Control (MAC) address. The ARP stores IP address-to-MAC address information. For example, if you know the IP address of a system on the network, the ARP table will provide the corresponding MAC address associated with that IP address. On ...
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