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Stephen Suryaputra

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Jun 20, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/20/96
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Do anybody know other protocols which use ARP? It was stated in RFC
826 that ARP can use other protocol than IP, but is there any real
implementation of that?

And what kind of hardware know using ARP? I just know that Ethernet
and packet radio use it.

Thank you,

Barry Margolin

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Jun 21, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/21/96
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In article <4qc4tt$c...@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>,

Stephen Suryaputra <ssu...@stts.ac.id> wrote:
>Do anybody know other protocols which use ARP? It was stated in RFC
>826 that ARP can use other protocol than IP, but is there any real
>implementation of that?

Chaosnet, the protocol developed at MIT in the 70's, and used by
MIT/Symbolics/LMI Lisp Machines, also uses ARP. In fact, ARP was developed
by David Plummer at Symbolics.
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Stephen Suryaputra

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Jun 28, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/28/96
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bar...@tools.bbnplanet.com (Barry Margolin) wrote:

>In article <4qc4tt$c...@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>,
>Stephen Suryaputra <ssu...@stts.ac.id> wrote:
>>Do anybody know other protocols which use ARP? It was stated in RFC
>>826 that ARP can use other protocol than IP, but is there any real
>>implementation of that?

>Chaosnet, the protocol developed at MIT in the 70's, and used by
>MIT/Symbolics/LMI Lisp Machines, also uses ARP. In fact, ARP was developed
>by David Plummer at Symbolics.

Is Chaosnet use the ARP as defined in RFC 826, or a modified one? As
you have known, ATM also use ARP but it is the modified one, ATMARP.

I want to know, because if it is use specifically for IP, I will not
consider protocol address length in ARP packet I received.

Thank you very much,

Barry Margolin

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Jun 30, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/30/96
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In article <4r1ci3$t...@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>,

Stephen Suryaputra <ssu...@stts.ac.id> wrote:
>Is Chaosnet use the ARP as defined in RFC 826, or a modified one? As
>you have known, ATM also use ARP but it is the modified one, ATMARP.

Chaosnet uses the standard ARP protocol. As I indicated, the designer of
ARP was at one of the few companies that produced commercial products using
Chaosnet, and they made ARP general enough to support both IP and Chaosnet.

>I want to know, because if it is use specifically for IP, I will not
>consider protocol address length in ARP packet I received.

Unless you support Chaosnet, you don't have to worry about Chaosnet ARP
packets. These days there's practically no reason to add Chaosnet support
to a system that doesn't have it (Lisp Machines also support TCP/IP, they
only use Chaosnet to talk to each other).

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