Briefly describe the RARP protocol.
What will be an ideal response?
The Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) provides IP address to MAC address resolution in a manner similar to that of ARP, but does so under different circumstances. In the case of a diskless workstation, a source host will know its MAC address (because it is burned into the NIC) but not its IP address, because the IP address is implemented in software and a diskless workstation cannot store information locally. This host will get its IP address by issuing a RARP request to a RARP server. RARP has been largely replaced with DHCP because RARP requires that each MAC be manually configured on a central server and only the IP address can be assigned. DHCP conveys much more information and is easier to implement since it assigns the information irrespective of MAC address.
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