kay, about Figure 1.1...

How would you say the PC named Bob

communicates with the PC named Sally? Well, they’re both on the same
LAN connected with a multiport repeater (a hub). So does Bob just send
out a data message, “Hey Sally, you there?” or does Bob use Sally’s IP
address and put things more like, “Hey 192.168.0.3, are you there?”
Hopefully, you picked the IP address option, but even if you did, the
news is still bad—both answers are wrong! Why? Because Bob is
actually going to use Sally’s MAC address (known as a hardware
address), which is burned right into the network card of Sally’s PC, to get
ahold of her.
Great, but how does Bob get Sally’s MAC address since Bob knows only
Sally’s name and doesn’t even have her IP address yet? Bob is going to
start with name resolution (hostname to