Term Description
ARP ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) is a protocol for mapping IP adresses to MAC (Media Access Control) physical machine adresses.

ARP uses an ARP cache table to maintain a correlation and convert between each MAC address and its corresponding IP address in both directions.

ARP is used in all Ethernet/IP networks to resolve IP addresses to physical device addresses. It is not routable.

See also: RFC 826
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