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b. Bind a network interface's physical address to an IP address

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On local area networks, ARP (address resolution protocol) is used by TCP/IP to bind a network interface's physical address to an IP address. ARP resolution, as this is called, has to be performed on a particular interface before it can communicate on the network.

To keep from having to repeatedly perform ARP resolutions, Windows 2000 stores ARP bindings in a local cache on each networked computer. The lifetime of the entries in this cache is by default a mere two minutes. If you have systems in a local network that perform a great deal of peer-to-peer communication, and their IP addresses tend to remain static for a long time (for instance, if they aren't shut down often), it makes sense to increase the lifetime of entries in the cache. Otherwise, they expire unnecessarily.

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>> Read Serdar Yegulalp's full article entitled: Change Windows ARP resolution.

>> Learn how to increase your ARP cahe size in Windows.

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