[ale] arp port

[Matt Shade]

Well, okay...arp does go OUT of your collision domain, however, what's
returned is the hardware address of your collision domain termination point.
I stand corrected on that.


matt shade
www.threekay.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shawn Zabel" <zabelsr at yahoo.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 19:34
Subject: Re: [ale] arp port


> Incorrect... ARP requests will cross bridges and switches. The reply will
> contain the physical hardware address of the host and source route
> information (if the packet has crossed bridges). ARP works beyond
collision
> domains.
>
>
> Shawn
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Matt Shade <mshade at threekay.com>
> To: <krugerb at benning.army.mil>; <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 5:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] arp port
>
>
> > arp can only work inside "collision domains", which basically means
> anything
> > on one side of a bridge. This also means that you can't necessarily see
> > everything on your own network, if there's a bridge segmenting it into
> > seperate collision domains. You  don't normally see this in small
> networks,
> > but in larger ethernet networks, where collisions may begin to be a
> problem,
> > collision domains are bound to be found.



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