RFC 2390 (rfc2390) - Page 1 of 10
Inverse Address Resolution Protocol
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Network Working Group T. Bradley
Request for Comments: 2390 Avici Systems, Inc.
Obsoletes: 1293 C. Brown
Category: Standards Track Consultant
A. Malis
Ascend Communications, Inc.
September 1998
Inverse Address Resolution Protocol
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998). All Rights Reserved.
2. Abstract
This memo describes additions to ARP that will allow a station to
request a protocol address corresponding to a given hardware address.
Specifically, this applies to Frame Relay stations that may have a
Data Link Connection Identifier (DLCI), the Frame Relay equivalent of
a hardware address, associated with an established Permanent Virtual
Circuit (PVC), but do not know the protocol address of the station on
the other side of this connection. It will also apply to other
networks with similar circumstances.
This memo replaces RFC 1293. The changes from RFC 1293 are minor
changes to formalize the language, the additions of a packet diagram
and an example in section 7.2, and a new security section.
3. Conventions
The keywords MUST, MUST NOT, REQUIRED, SHALL, SHALL NOT, SHOULD,
SHOULD NOT, RECOMMENDED, MAY, and OPTIONAL, when they appear in this
document, are to be interpreted as described in [5].
Bradley, et. al. Standards Track