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AARP

Last Updated December 30, 2021 3:14 pm

Short for AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol, a protocol for mapping a device’s physical hardware address to a temporary Appletalk network-assigned address in Macintosh computer LANs. When a protocol stack sends a data packet, the protocol address specifies the destination. The data link layer relies on AARP to translate the protocol address into the hardware address of the destination node.

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