Access Internet Protocol (IP) And Medium Access Control (Mac) Address Through Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)

Abstract

Networks fundamentally rely on the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) for proper operation. Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is a protocol for mapping an Internet Protocol address (IP address) to a physical machine address(MAC address) that is recognized in the local network. IP address is 32 bits long and MAC address is 48 bits long. A table, usually called the ARP cache, is used to maintain a correlation between each MAC address and its corresponding IP address. ARP provides the protocol rules for making this correlation and providing address conversion in both directions. This system implements with a tool to display IP-to-Physical address translation tables used by ARP cache. This system manages processes using IP by Java.