Glossary of Data Communications Terms

Courtesy Enterprise-Wide Computing, Inc.

Term: Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Definition: Used to dynamically discover the low level physical network hardware address that corresponds to the high level IP address for a given host. ARP is limited to physical network systems that support broadcast packets that can be heard by all hosts on the network. It is defined in RFC 826. See also: proxy ARP.

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