Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index AARP probe packets are sent out on a nonextended AppleTalk network as part of the initialization sequence for a node to discover whether a randomly selected node ID is being used by any node. If not, the sending node uses the node ID. If so, it chooses a different ID and sends more AARP probe packets. See also: Apple Address Resolution Protocol (AARP) Packet (computing) This article (or an earlier version of it) contains material from FOLDOC, used with permission. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.