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| CyberDude 2002-10-16, 3:41 pm |
| Hi guys, does anyone know why RARP is not part of 2K?  | |
| KScheler 2002-10-16, 4:19 pm |
| Not sure but could it have something to do with the fact that W2k and AD will function without a Reverse Lookup zone in DNS? | |
| chodan 2002-10-16, 8:37 pm |
| Cyberdude
Are you asking if why it isn't part of the win2k tests or just not part of win2k?
KScheler
Rarp doesn't have anything to do with DNS it stands for reverse address resolution protocol, as the name indicates it resolves mac addresses to ip addresses unlike arp which uses broadcasts to resolve ip addresses to mac addresses.
Here is the cisco take on rarp.
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) is a protocol in the TCP/IP stack that provides a method for finding IP addresses based on MAC (physical) addresses. This functionality is the reverse of broadcasting Address Resolution Protocols (ARPs), through which a host can dynamically discover the MAC-layer address corresponding to a particular IP network-layer address. RARP makes diskless booting of various systems possible (for example, diskless workstations that do not know their IP addresses when they boot, such as Sun workstations or PCs on networks where the client and server are on separate subnets). RARP relies on the presence of a RARP server with cached table entries of MAC-layer-to-IP address mappings.
Hope this helps  | |
| CyberDude 2002-10-17, 12:04 pm |
| I wnat to know why it is not part of 2K or XP. | |
| chodan 2002-10-17, 12:21 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by CyberDude
I wnat to know why it is not part of 2K or XP.
Only MS R&D knows for sure hehe
I think that maybe they would rather push Windows 2000 DHCP servers and DNS proxies 
I'm not sure I see the value much in using RARP on a MS network myself. | |
| Conceptor 2002-10-17, 12:26 pm |
| MS likes DHCP as opposed to RARP. |
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