Reverse Address Resolution Protocol This protocol makes life easier to change IP addresses on machines. For all the machines on a network to see one another, they must know the others' IP addresses. If the IP address of one machine changes, the change must be done on each of the other machines. This would take a million years, so enters RARP which makes it possible to manage changes centrally and broadcast them to the other machines. RARP looks for an IP address when given a hardware address (the opposite of ARP).
Reserved Address Resolution Protocol, the TCP/IP protocol that allows a computer that has a Physical layer address such as Ethernet address but does not have an IP address to request a numeric IP address from another computer on the network.
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol is a method of mapping the physical Ethernet address to the IP address of the host.
See: Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. A protocol, defined in RFC 903, which provides the reverse function of ARP. RARP maps a hardware (MAC) address to an internet address. It is used primarily by diskless nodes when they first initialize to find their internet address. See also: Address Resolution Protocol, BOOTP, internet address, MAC address.
The Internet protocol that permits a physical network address (for example, a 48-bit Ethernet address) to be translated into an IP address by sending a request to an RARP server. This protocol is used by diskless workstations to determine their own IP addresses at startup. See also ARP. (8/97)
(Reverse Address Resolution Protocol) The logical reverse of ARP that provides a method for finding IP addresses based on Ethernet/802.2 addresses. See RFC 903.
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. RARP does the opposite of the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP). When a device knows its own MAC address but not its IP number, it broadcasts to the LAN a message that says, "Here is my MAC address; tell me my IP address if you know it."
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. he TCP/IP protocol a diskless machine uses at startup to find its IP address.
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. Internet protocol used by a diskless machine at startup to find its Internet address. The machine broadcasts a request containing its physical hardware address, and a server responds by sending the machine its Internet address.
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol; protocol used to obtain the IP address of the server from a known network address.
A protocol used to translate the unique hardware NIC addresses (MAC addresses) into IP addresses (the reverse of ARP).
The logical reverse of ARP. RARP is used to determine the IP address of a computer on a TCP/IP network when only the hardware address is known.
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. For host machines that don't know their IP address.
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. A TCP/IP protocol for determining the IP address (or logical address) of a node on a local area network connected to the Internet, when only the hardware address (or physical address) is known. Although the acronym RARP refers only to finding the IP address, and Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) technically refers to the opposite procedure, the acronym ARP is commonly used to describe both procedures.
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. A protocol that maps 32-bit Internet addresses to 48-bit Ethernet addresses. See ARP.
(Reverse Address Resolution Protocol) a network layer protocol allowing hosts to discover their own IP address from a hardware address. See ARP.
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol - Works oppositely to ARP, allowing a known MAC address for a system to be translated into its IP address, if any. RARP is used by older workstations to discover their IP address on the network.
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. A TCP/IP protocol that enables a device to acquire its IP address by performing a broadcast on the network.
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. The Internet protocol a diskless host uses to find its Internet address at startup. RARP maps a physical (hardware) address to an Internet address.
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. Protocol in the TCP/IP stack that provides a method for finding IP addresses based on MAC addresses. Compare with ARP.
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol - Provides a method for translating hardware (e.g. Ethernet) addresses to Internet addresses
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. The protocol a diskless workstation uses at startup to find its Internet address.
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. A protocol that allows a system to obtain its IP address by broadcasting its MAC address to the subnet. A server retrieves the corresponding IP address from the /etc/ethers database file and sends the address to the requester.
The TCP/IP protocol that a diskless machine uses at startup to find its address. The machine broadcasts a request that contains its physical hardware address and a server responds by sending the machine its IP address.
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. TCP/IP protocol for finding IP addresses based on MAC addresses. See also ARP.
