Comparative Analysis of Neighbor Greeting Procotols ARP Versus ES-IS

Neighbor greeting involves a process used by network nodes to achieve reachability and discovery. The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) and End-System to Intermediate-System Routing Exchange Protocol (ES-IS) are competing approaches to the neighbor greeting problem. This paper provides a detailed analysis of the performance of these protocols, and a better understanding of the performance tradeoos that distinguish systems which rely on demand based binding , versus those which rely on passive binding using advertisements. Results presented in this paper suggest that signiicantly enhanced services are provided to connectionless network-layer entities by ES-IS relative to ARP based schemes. These ndings provide insights applicable to the design of future address resolution protocols in an internetwork environment.