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Question

without using ip address can we send information to receiver

by Jul 1, 2015 7:15AM PDT

Without using IP address and router can we reach destination? i want to know, if there are 3 or 4 source systems requesting a information then the receiver i.e server receives the question and while receiver searching for answer if there is occurrence of error and then how it will communicate the receiver system without ip address (if the server losts ip address of source system)

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Only on a LAN.
by Forum moderator Jul 1, 2015 7:19AM PDT

It's deeply technical but the answer is yes on a LAN. But I won't go deep here as it's that deep and something we do only on spec work. That is, it costs a lot to implement.

I can't guess your setup but maybe a new app or plan is required.

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Perhaps a custom program
by raskolnikov543 Jul 4, 2015 8:58AM PDT

I think it would be possible to program an application that will use only MAC addresses to communicate inside a LAN. Of course, it would be a lot of work and error-prone, but I think it could be done. For example, Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) uses MAC addresses to communicate.

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I don't think so..
by Jul 6, 2015 5:22AM PDT

You can add or remove IP Addresses of Trap or Inform Receivers. But I don't think so that without using ip address we can send information to receiver.

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Think again.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jul 6, 2015 3:58PM PDT

DHCP passes information without an IP address.

So there's a way. But will the OP pay for the development?

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Thanks for giving me topic to ride it upon
by aceyjames Jul 8, 2015 4:27AM PDT

Okay, may be in that case it happens. But yet, I've only heard and read about Adding or Removing IP Addresses of Trap or Inform Receivers.

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And that is data being passed along without an IP
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jul 8, 2015 8:54AM PDT

I use that as an example that is being done daily by billions of computers yet here's the thing. I'm finding a lot of folk don't want to know how this all works. And there's no way I can write it all here, hence the internet.

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Thats Great
by aceyjames Jul 9, 2015 2:45AM PDT
Happy No problem. It would be fine.
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