As I understand things... An ARP request is a system querying an IP address and asking for the MAC associated with that address. Routers and switches send to MACs not IPs (right?) so they need to know ...

In March we introduced the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), a half-brother to the TCP/IP stack that maps the logical IP address space into the real world of Ethernet hardware addresses. We didn’t ...

ARP or Address Resolution Protocol in Windows is responsible for resolving IP addresses to MAC addresses to speed up connection over a local network. So instead of asking the router where a particular ...