Vines does have something called 'ARP', although I believe it was mostly
used just for a DHCP-type service (address assignment).  Apollo implements
as true full-blown ARP. ATM also supports an inverse-ARP.






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> 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.
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