ADDRESS RESOLUTION

Communications Systems Glossary

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Information on Address resolution

Address resolution is a term used for techniques to map network-layer (Layer 3) addresses to data-link (Layer 2) addresses. In IP networks, the most common form of address resolution is the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP).


Other topics in our resources on Communications Systems related to Address resolution include: 
 
  • data-link layer (Layer 2)
  • network layer (Layer 3)
  • Connection-oriented
  • Sliding window
  • Multicast address
  • Connectionless
  • SNMP (Simple network management protocol)
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