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Which protocol is responsible for converting the logical address to a physical address?

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Question added by هاشم المشارقة , Key Account Manager , Advanced United Systems Ltd. ( A member of Taj Holding Group)
Date Posted: 2017/01/24
Mohamed Namour
by Mohamed Namour , System Administrator

(ARP) or Address Resolution Protocol does the Job , The RARP (Reverse ARP) does the contrary

Mohammad Yousif Lashari
by Mohammad Yousif Lashari , Branch Operations Manager , United Bank Limited

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) ARP is mostly generally used to translate IP

Abdul Rafeek Thooppil
by Abdul Rafeek Thooppil , IT Coordinator , Oscar Building Cont LLC

ARP...The address resolution protocol (arp) is a protocolused by the Internet Protocol (IP) [RFC826], specifically IPv4, to map IP network addresses to the hardware addresses used by a data link protocol

Hassan Ali
by Hassan Ali , System Engineer , Global Links

ARP... Address Resolution Protocol 

Deleted user
by Deleted user

Before answering, I'd like to highlight that the assumption here on logical/physical addressing is that of the networking domain, specifically in the Ethernet implementation.

 

So the question should read: what protocol is used to map IP addresses to MAC addresses.

 

In which case, the answer, like others have stated, is Address Resolution Protocol (ARP).

 

To be precise, this answer only applies to mapping IP addresses to MAC addresses in a TCP/IP network, running on Ethernet media.  Other forms of logical addresses, e.g. Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN), for example, use higher layer protocols (DNS in this case) to map a fully qualified hostname to an IP address notation, which is yet another form of logical address.

Sorry to be pedantic, but in order to get a correct and valid answer, one must be precise.

 

Hope this helps ..

Dagem Taye
by Dagem Taye , Network engineer , Dashen Bank SC

 ETHERNET IPV4 L2  networks use "ARP"  to obtain Mac address of an IP address with in their segment.IPV6  has a similar Neighbor Discovery protocol .

 

Naveen Shetty / IT Manager / IT Project Manager / ERP / ITIL
by Naveen Shetty / IT Manager / IT Project Manager / ERP / ITIL , Group IT Manager , Bell Racing International WLL

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) does this job.

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