ARP and the ARP table

posted by  buffer (19)  5 months ago (yoootube.blogspot.com)

We know that two workstations or a server and workstation, can only talk via their MAC address, which is layer two in the TCP stack. How do we find out what the MAC address is?Workstation A wants to talk to workstation B - workstation A puts an ARP request onto the wire, which happens to be broadcast. Essentially what it 's saying is - Who has workstation B 's MAC address?Of course, because it's a