Chap 07 arp & rarp

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Objectives
Upon completion you will be able to:
• Understand the need for ARP
• Understand the cases in which ARP is used
• Understand the components and interactions in an ARP package
• Understand the need for RARP
TCP/IP Protocol Suite 1

Figure 7.1 ARP and RARP

Figure 7.2 Position of ARP and RARP in TCP/IP protocol suite

7.1 ARP
ARP associates an IP address with its physical aaddddrreessss.. OOnn aa ttyyppiiccaall
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Figure 7.3 ARP operation

Figure 7.4 ARP packet

Figure 7.5 Encapsulation of ARP packet

Figure 7.6 Four cases using ARP

NNoottee::
An ARP request is broadcast;
an ARP reply is unicast.

ExamplE 1
A host with IP address 130.23.43.20 and physical
address B2:34:55:10:22:10 has a packet to send to
another host with IP address 130.23.43.25 and
physical address A4:6E:F4:59:83:AB (which is
unknown to the first host). The two hosts are on the
same Ethernet network. Show the ARP request and
reply packets encapsulated in Ethernet frames.
See Next Slide

ExamplE 1 (ContinuEd)
Solution
Figure 7.7 shows the ARP request and reply packets.
Note that the ARP data field in this case is 28 bytes,
and that the individual addresses do not fit in the 4-
byte boundary. That is why we do not show the
regular 4-byte boundaries for these addresses. Also
note that the IP addresses are shown in hexadecimal.
For information on binary or hexadecimal notation
see Appendix B.
See Next Slide

Figure 7.7 Example 1

Figure 7.8 Proxy ARP

7.2 ARP PACKAGE
In this section, we give an example of a simplified AARRPP ssooffttwwaarree
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Figure 7.9 ARP components

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ExamplE 2
The ARP output module receives an IP datagram
(from the IP layer) with the destination address
114.5.7.89. It checks the cache table and finds that an
entry exists for this destination with the RESOLVED
state (R in the table). It extracts the hardware address,
which is 457342ACAE32, and sends the packet and
the address to the data link layer for transmission.
The cache table remains the same.

ExamplE 3
Twenty seconds later, the ARP output module receives
an IP datagram (from the IP layer) with the
destination address 116.1.7.22. It checks the cache
table and does not find this destination in the table.
The module adds an entry to the table with the state
PENDING and the Attempt value 1. It creates a new
queue for this destination and enqueues the packet. It
then sends an ARP request to the data link layer for
this destination. The new cache table is shown in
Table 7.2.
See Next Slide

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ExamplE 4
Fifteen seconds later, the ARP input module receives
an ARP packet with target protocol (IP) address
188.11.8.71. The module checks the table and finds
this address. It changes the state of the entry to
RESOLVED and sets the time-out value to 900. The
module then adds the target hardware address
(E34573242ACA) to the entry. Now it accesses queue
18 and sends all the packets in this queue, one by one,
to the data link layer. The new cache table is shown in
Table 7.3.
See Next Slide

ExamplE 5
Twenty-five seconds later, the cache-control module
updates every entry. The time-out values for the first
three resolved entries are decremented by 60. The
time-out value for the last resolved entry is
decremented by 25. The state of the next-to-the last
entry is changed to FREE because the time-out is
zero. For each of the three pending entries, the value
of the attempts
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7.3 RARP
RARP finds the logical address for a machine tthhaatt oonnllyy kknnoowwss iittss
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NNoottee::
The RARP request packets are broadcast;
the RARP reply packets are unicast.

Figure 7.10 RARP operation

Figure 7.11 RARP packet

Figure 7.12 Encapsulation of RARP packet

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