From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 24 14:26:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA10520 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 14:26:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from echonyc.com (echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA10490 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 14:25:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from benedict@echonyc.com) Received: from localhost (benedict@localhost) by echonyc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA02620 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 17:25:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 17:25:16 -0500 (EST) From: Snob Art Genre To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ARP REQUEST question In-Reply-To: <19980324220447.14324.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message