Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) a stateless protocol was designed to map Internet Protocol addresses (IP) to their associated Media Access Control (MAC) addresses.
This being said, by mapping a 32 bit IP address to an associated 48 bit MAC address via attached Ethernet devices, a communication between local nodes can be made.
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