Re: Question on Network Security

responder wrote:
Huge wrote:


On 2007-02-14, responder <no@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



ARP is part of DHCP so ARP broadcast traffic only happens on DHCP
networks.

Nonsense.


Nonsense yourself.


The poster Huge is right: ARP is a protocol to convert
IP addresses to local network addresses (also called MAC
addresses).

ARP has nothing to do with DHCP, which is an extension of
the BOOTP protocol.

For references, see RFCs 826 and 1433.

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Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio (at) iki fi
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