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All About ARP
How a device turns an IP into a MAC, broadcast, reply, and cache. Every section is a drawn page beside a clear written explanation, about 8 minutes in all.
- Chapter 9 of 31
- About 8 minutes
- 9 sections
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In this chapter
- What is ARP?
- ARP is like DNS
- The setup
- Step 1: Same network?
- Step 2: ARP broadcast
- Step 3: Only the owner replies
- The ARP table (cache)
- Out-of-network case
- See it yourself: arp -a
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