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Date:      Tue, 24 Mar 1998 17:25:16 -0500 (EST)
From:      Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ARP REQUEST question
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.980324172229.1461A-100000@echonyc.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980324220447.14324.qmail@hotmail.com>

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On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, pratap singh wrote:

> Hi all gurus of Networking,
> I have a basic doubt. Every layer has a cehcksum being calculated 
> whereas the ARP frame does not have. Can anyone throw light on this
> please. Is it because the ARP packets donot traverse the LAN boundary 
> and error rates in LAN environment are very low compared to the WAN 
> error rates???? 

Probably.  Also, let's say an ARP frame does get corrupted.  Where do
you report the error?  Better just to wait for the request to get
retransmitted, which it will.


 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems." 


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