Discussion & Informal Exercises
ARP, RARP, BOOTP, DHCP solve parts of the autoconfiguration (plug-and-play) problem.
We will re-examine autoconfiguration later …
Exercises:
- Read the man page for the “arp” command
- Approximate the tcpdump experiments given in the text using your rcs and networks lab accounts.
- ARP requires a broadcast enabled LAN. What would happen on a non-broadcast medium access (NBMA) LAN ? Guess first and then see RFC 1735.