From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 24 14:05:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA07975 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 14:05:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hotmail.com (f61.hotmail.com [207.82.250.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA07957 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 14:05:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from v_pr@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 14325 invoked by uid 0); 24 Mar 1998 22:04:47 -0000 Message-ID: <19980324220447.14324.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.125.90.2 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 14:04:47 PST X-Originating-IP: [209.125.90.2] From: "pratap singh" To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ARP REQUEST question Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 14:04:47 PST Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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???? Regards, prats ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message