Secure Network Administrationintermediate
Arrange the steps in order for an IPv4 host to learn a neighbor's Media Access Control (MAC) address using Address Resolution Protocol (ARP).
Answer
The requesting host sends a broadcast ARP request for the target's IPv4 address., The switch floods the request to the other ports in the same broadcast domain, excluding the incoming port., The target host recognizes its IPv4 address in the request., The target host replies with its MAC address.
Explanation
### The order
1. **The requesting host sends a broadcast ARP request for the target's IPv4 address.** The requester does not yet know the target MAC address, so it asks the local network who owns the target IPv4 address.
2. **The switch floods the request to the other ports in the same broadcast domain, excluding the incoming port.** A broadcast must reach the local devices that could own the address.
3. **The target host recognizes its IPv4 address in the request.** Other hosts receive the request too, but the target is the one whose address matches.
4. **The target host replies with its MAC address.** The requester can then use that MAC address for local frame delivery.
### Terms
- **ARP**: Address Resolution Protocol. It discovers the MAC address associated with an IPv4 address.
- **MAC**: Media Access Control. The address used for delivery over a local link.
- **IPv4**: Internet Protocol version 4. An Internet Protocol version using 32-bit addresses.
- **Broadcast**: A frame delivery method that reaches devices in a broadcast domain.
- **Switch**: A device that forwards local frames based on MAC addresses.
- **Broadcast domain**: The group of ports and devices that receive a Layer 2 broadcast.
- **Frame**: A unit of data carried over a local link.
### Remember
ARP resolution proceeds from broadcast request, to local flooding, to a reply from the address owner.
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