Re: [manet] ARP in MANETS


yasser lotfy wrote:

>Hi All,
>I don't see any point in having ARP in MANET.
>
>MANET relies on 2 fundamental technologies:
>1) The use of IP layer routing to relay packets to destination.
>2) The use of ppp to discover nodes at 1 hop distance
>
>Therefore, you need only to know the MAAC address of your immediate neighbor. Typically, listening to the wireless media is good enough for that.
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>
And if you want to send to a station that is quiet? Then I think you 
somehow must request its MAC address.

Kind regards
Ali

>All distant neighbors are reachable via IP routing layer.
>
>Does this make sense?
>
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