Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!proteon.COM!jas From: jas@proteon.COM (John A. Shriver) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: a proposed modification to ARP Message-ID: <8807151703.AA16149@monk.proteon.com> Date: 15 Jul 88 17:03:36 GMT References: <8807131426.AA04434@gaak.LCS.MIT.EDU> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 6 This entire discussion of ARP and using a multicast address has one assumption that has not been raised. The idea is to send the first ARP request as a Multicast, and then send retransmissions as Broadcast. This assumes that the ARP implementation in question is stateful, and has retransmissions. Not all ARP implementations meet this criteria. Of course, these implementations could always send to the broadcast.