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Why RARP request use broadcast address??. We know the sender Mac and destination Mac(RARP server) , why can't we send unique packet directly to the RARP.server???
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The original reason is for a computer to discover its own IP address, and at the point of booting, the computer would not know the MAC address of any servers to help.

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