Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 14:25:08 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: "pratap singh" <v_pr@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ARP REQUEST question Message-ID: <199803242225.OAA27230@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Mar 1998 14:04:47 PST." <19980324220447.14324.qmail@hotmail.com>
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>Hi all gurus of Networking, >I have a basic doubt. Every layer has a cehcksum being calculated >whereas the ARP frame does not have. Can anyone throw light on this >please. Is it because the ARP packets donot traverse the LAN boundary >and error rates in LAN environment are very low compared to the WAN >error rates???? All ethernet packets have a 32bit CRC, so the arps are protected by that. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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