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 ...

Just a quick note, ARP stands for Address Resolution Protocol, not Address Request Packet.<P>And yes, ARP is cached on a per-system basis (IIRC), so a fair amount of traffic is to be expected as ...

Our final project is a full hardware UDP (User Datagram Protocol) stack for the DE2 evaluation board that interfaces with the DM9000A MAC/PHY chip on the board. It includes the full IPv4 protocol and ...

A Cisco security advisory outlines weaknesses in its WLAN controllers that could lead to the kind of inadvertent denial of service attacks that affected Duke’s wireless net. Cisco has just released a ...