ARP requests on my net?

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Wed Apr 5 01:42:23 UTC 2006


Edward Krack wrote:
>  Edward Krack: 
> 
>> It has to know where to go. Can you drive cross country
>> without a road map?
> 
> Users computer types in a URL to browse the net.
> Users computer is config to use DNS server to resolve the
> the name in the URL to an IP address.
> TCP/IP uses ARP.
> Host found. Session established.

You are confusing ARP and DNS.

ARP is *only* used to determine MAC addresses.  MAC addresses are *only*
used within a subnet.

You even quoted...

"Communicates between two computers on the same subnet as the host
server."

Don't mix 2 issues.




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