Networkingexplain

AARP stands for address resolution protocol now this is a protocol that is used to resolve IP addresses to MAC addresses the MAC address is a physical address of a device it's a globally unique number that is assigned to every network interface card whenever a device needs to communicate with another device on a local area network it needs the MAC address for that device and devices use ARP to acquire the MAC address for that device so as an example let's say that computer a wants to communicate with computer B now computer a already knows the IP address for computer B but in order to communicate with computer B it still needs its MAC address now an IP address is used to locate a device on a network and the MAC address is what identifies the actual device so in order to find the MAC address computer a will first look at its internal list called an ARP cache to see if computer B's IP address already has a matching MAC address in fact we can check this ourselves at a Windows ...