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Definitions of reverse address resolution protocol:

A protocol, which provides the reverse function of ARP. RARP maps a hardware (MAC) address to an Internet address. It is used primarily by diskless nodes when they first initialise to find their Internet address.
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Used by a host to discover its IP address. The host broadcasts its physical address and a RARP server replies with the host's IP address.
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The TCP/IP protocol a diskless machine uses at startup to find its IP address.
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Reverse address resolution protocol (RARP) is a protocol used to resolve an IP address from a given hardware address (such as an Ethernet address). The primary limitations were that each MAC had to be manually configured on a central server, and it was limited to only the IP address, leaving subnetting, gateways, and other information to be configured by hand. It was later obsoleted by BOOTP, which had a much greater feature set.
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