Guide to TCP/IP, Chapter 4 (F), ARP Protocol Characteristics and Handling

hardware type, protocol type, hardware address length, protocol address length, operation, sender hardware address, sender protocol address, target hardware address, target protocol address

What are the 9 fields in an ARP frame structure?

gratuitous ARP

A duplicate address test process where an IP host sends an ARP request for its own IP address.

is not, has no

ARP (is, is not) routable; it (has a, has no) Network layer component in the packet structure.

duplicate

ARP can be used to test for a d________ IP address on the network.

addressing, configuration

ARP is often the protocol that signifies problems with network a________ or c____________.

local, remote, routing, route, resolution process

ARP is used only to find the hardware address of l____ IP hosts. If the IP destination is r_____ (on another network), the IP host must refer to it's r______ tables to determine the proper r_____ for the packet. This is referred to as the route r_________ p______.

cache, request, broadcast, broadcasts

An IP host refers to the ARP (table, cache, address) first, before issuing and ARP r______, b_______-based, on to the network. If the desired hardware address is not found in the cache, the IP host b_________ an ARP request.

cache, hardware, memory

IP hosts maintain an ARP c____- a table of h_______ addresses learned through the ARP process- in m_____.

can not

If a gratuitous ARP request provides a reply that an intended IP address is already in use, the host (can, can not) initiate the TCP/IP stack.

TCP/IP, ARP, hardware, local

___/__ networking uses ___ to determine the h_______ address of the l____ target for the packet.