RARP : Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
Introduction How does a diskless station gets it’s IP-address for loading it’s operating system over the network?
Resolving an IP Address 3 RARP Server 08004. . . 131.107.7.29 file1 08008. . . 131.107.7.28 file2 1 Boot ?.?.?.? 08004. . . 2 RARP Broadcast IP Address = 131.107.7.29 4 IP Address = 131.107.7.29 Hardware Address = 08004. . .
RARP Packet Format Frame type = 0x08035 operation 3 RARP request Ethernet dest addr srce addr Frame type hard prot hard size Sender Eth addr prot size operat IP addr tartget target 6 2 1 4 Ethernet header 28 byte ARP request/reply Frame type = 0x08035 operation 3 RARP request 4 RARP reply
RARP Server Design Mapping between MAC-address IP-address disk-file with OS TFTP server to receive OS Multiple RARP Servers per network for redundancy first RARP reply