ARP is an IP term. But AppleTalk has the AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol (AARP) which behaves just like IP ARP, with a few additional features to support dynamic addressing. But its main function is to find the data-link-layer address when the network-layer address is known, which is just like IP ARP.
Novell IPX doesn't need such a feature because the Node ID in the network.node network-layer address IS the data-link-layer address. So if a station knows another station's network-layer address, it knows the station's data-link-layer address too. DECnet doesn't need such a feature either because it changes the data-link-layer address on an interface so that it is based on the network-layer address. I can't remember too much about Banyan. It may have an ARP. What else is there?? Hmmmmm. NetBEUI doesn't have a network layer, so it doesn't need ARP. SNA is such a different beast, I doubt it has ARP. We could talk about WANs too I guess. Frame Relay has inverse ARP. HDLC has SLARP. Priscilla At 09:01 PM 10/30/01, Dave Shine wrote: >Does anyone know what protocols do or better yet do >not support ARP? > >D.S. > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. >http://personals.yahoo.com ________________________ Priscilla Oppenheimer http://www.priscilla.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=24750&t=24738 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]