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mmozaffa · 12-17-2006

Hi,I have a confusion if the statement below is true ?"If a hub is connected to port 0/1, and aworkstation connected to the hub transmits a packets to another workstation connected to the hub, port 0/1 will not forward this packet anywherebecause the...

mmozaffa · 10-01-2006

The ARP packet contains L2 header and ARP header only and does not have IP header so this makes it a layer 2 protcol but on the other hand the IP address lookup(camparision) has to take place when a ARP Request packet is sent out which is a layer 3 b...

mmozaffa · 12-17-2006

thanks , actually I got confused with the statement, yes ur right, I remember it.

mmozaffa · 10-01-2006

There is no concept of ARP or RARP on a L2 switch, as mentioned above L2 swicthes uses only MAC address table to do forwarding/filtering decison and does NOT uses ARP cache for packet forwarding.Router can definately do RARP, not sure waht u mean by ...

mmozaffa · 10-01-2006

Hi,Thanks for the reply. If you take an example of "Proxy ARP", it allows the router to respond to an ARP request (if a valid route is present)for a host that is not on the connected network where the ARP broadcast is heard.Here "valid route is prese...

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