What is the protocol that is used to discover a physical address from a known logical address and what message type does it use?

IT Questions BankCategory: Networking Devices and Initial ConfigurationWhat is the protocol that is used to discover a physical address from a known logical address and what message type does it use?

What is the protocol that is used to discover a physical address from a known logical address and what message type does it use?

  • PING, broadcast
  • DNS, unicast
  • DNS, broadcast
  • PING, multicast
  • ARP, multicast
  • ARP, broadcast

Explanation: An ARP request is broadcast to all devices on a LAN segment which seek the MAC address for a known IP address. Pings are used to verify connectivity between two devices, and DNS resolves URLs to IP addresses.

Exam with this question: Networking Essentials 3.0 Checkpoint Exam: ARP, DNS, DHCP and the Transport Layer

Subscribe
Notify of
guest

0 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments