You know the IP address of the receiver but not the MAC address. What are you doing? Group of answer options a) Allows the ARP protocol to send a broadcast request for the MAC address of the computer with the given IP address b) You ping the IP address and automatically get the MAC address in the answer c) You send a request to the nearest DNS server d) When new equipment is connected to a network, that equipment notifies which MAC address it has to all neighbors who can put that information permanently in their ARP table.

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You know the IP address of the receiver but not the MAC address. What are you doing?
Group of answer options

a) Allows the ARP protocol to send a broadcast request for the MAC address of the computer with the given IP address

b) You ping the IP address and automatically get the MAC address in the answer

c) You send a request to the nearest DNS server

d) When new equipment is connected to a network, that equipment notifies which MAC address it has to all neighbors who can put that information permanently in their ARP table.

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