What is an ARP Entry ?

Karishma 4 posts since Apr 4, 2015

What is an ARP Entry ? Apr 29, 2015 11:55 PM
Hi All ,

What is an ARP Entry ?

Ri0N 2,187 posts since Dec 29, 2011

Re: What is an ARP Entry ? Apr 30, 2015 12:14 AM
An ARP entry is a single IP address to MAC address mapping. Example:

SW1#show arp
Protocol Address Age (min) Hardware Addr Type Interface
Internet 192.168.42.1 0 001b.c472.44b8 ARPA Vlan42

The ARP cache can contain multiple ARP entries.

SW1#show arp
Protocol Address Age (min) Hardware Addr Type Interface
Internet 192.168.42.1 0 001b.c472.44b8 ARPA Vlan42
Internet 192.168.42.8 0 0011.27c3.ef32 ARPA Vlan42
Internet 192.168.42.11 0 0023.9091.6436 ARPA Vlan42
Internet 192.168.42.100 0 c2f3.7b6a.00d6 ARPA Vlan42

Ismael da Silva Mariano 257 posts since Jun 28, 2008

Re: What is an ARP Entry ? Apr 30, 2015 2:40 AM
Hi, Karishma!

ARP stands for Address Resolution Protocol. Its used

during the communication when one of the sides
needs
to communicate with the other.
As of the communication the data link layer needs
to create the L2 PDU (frame). One of the parameters
needed
is the L2 address of the destination machine, for ethernet networks it is the MAC address. If the machine
doesnt know the

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What is an ARP Entry ?

MAC address it uses the ARP protocol to discover it and builds the ARP table.
The sending machine already knows the destination
IP address , so it sends an ARP REQUEST asking for
the MAC address
of the destination.

ARP REQUEST --- Who is 10.20.3.1 ?

The destination will answer with an ARP REPLY ---

Im 0a-5b-7f-00-02-1e

The sending machine now can populate its ARP table

with this entry

ARP TABLE
10.20.3.1 0a-5b-7f-00-02-1e ----> ARP ENTRY

The ARP entry will timeout and refresh after

sometime.

Cheers

Oscar 41 posts since Jan 8, 2015

Re: What is an ARP Entry ? Apr 30, 2015 12:13 PM
The answers corrects are above , the mapping ARP is the relationship of an ip address to mac address.
Thank to ARP we have communications point to point on the switches; leave behind the hubs that they were
multipoint and had collisions, shared bandwidth.

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