The Address Resolution Protocol(ARP)was developed to enable communications on an
intermetwork and perform a required function in IP routing.ARP lies between layers(71)
of the OSI model,and allows computers to introduce each other across a network prior to
communication.ARP finds the(72)address of a host from its known(73)address.Before a device
sends a datagran to another device,it looks in its ARP cache to see if there is a MAC address
and corresponding IP address for the destination device.If there is no entry, the source device
sends a (74) message to every device on the network. Each device compares the IP address to
its own. Only the device with the matching IP address replies with a packet containing the
MAC address for the device (except in the case of "proxy ARP).The sou