Layer 2 of the OSI model is where we find the Data Link Layer, which provides the mechanism by which data is transferred from node to node across a network. What makes this layer important is that it ...

In March we introduced the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), a half-brother to the TCP/IP stack that maps the logical IP address space into the real world of Ethernet hardware addresses. We didn’t ...

Typing ‘arp -a’ from the command line should display the local Address Resolution Protocol cache and reveal the media-access-control address of the active IP address if it is on the same network ...

Can you get a Web browser’s media access control (MAC) address from a Web server? It would probably be impractical to send an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) request. Can you get a Web browser’s ...

I think you need to supply more details...<BR><BR>Are you trying to do the name/ip lookup on some other machine than the one whose MAC address you have? <BR><BR>The translation between IP and MAC ...