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Address Resolution Protocol
1. Any protocol used to obtain a mapping from a higher layer address to a lower layer address; when abbreviated as ARP, the Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol (see 2) is most often meant.
2. The protocol used by an IP networking layer to map IP addresses to lower level hardware (i.e., MAC) addresses.
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