And what kind of hardware know using ARP? I just know that Ethernet
and packet radio use it.
Thank you,
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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>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,
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).