
Understanding Proxy ARP on J-EX Series Switches
You can configure proxy Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) on your J-EX Series Switch
to enable the switch to respond to ARP queries for network addresses by offering its own
Ethernet media access control (MAC) address. With proxy ARP enabled, the switch
captures and routes traffic to the intended destination.
Proxy ARP is useful in situations where hosts are on different physical networks and you
do not want to use subnet masking. Because ARP broadcasts are not propagated between
hosts on different physical networks, hosts will not receive a response to their ARP request
if the destination is on a different subnet. Enabling the switch to act as an ARP proxy
allows the hosts to transparently communicate with each other through the switch. Proxy
ARP can help hosts on a subnet reach remote subnets without your having to configure
routing or a default gateway.
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Proxy ARP Overview on page 2566
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Best Practices for Proxy ARP on J-EX Series Switches on page 2567
What Is ARP?
Ethernet LANs use ARP to map Ethernet MAC addresses to IP addresses. Each device
maintains a cache containing a mapping of MAC addresses to IP addresses. The switch
maintains this mapping in a cache that it consults when forwarding packets to network
devices. If the ARP cache does not contain an entry for the destination device, the host
(the DHCP client) broadcasts an ARP request for that device's address and stores the
response in the cache.
Proxy ARP Overview
When proxy ARP is enabled, if the switch receives an ARP request for which it has a route
to the target (destination) IP address, the switch responds by sending a proxy ARP reply
packet containing its own MAC address. The host that sent the ARP request then sends
its packets to the switch, which forwards them to the intended host.
NOTE:
For security reasons, the source address in an ARP request must be
on the same subnet as the interface on which the ARP request is received.
You can configure proxy ARP for each interface. You can also configure proxy ARP for a
VLAN by using a routed VLAN interface (RVI).
J-EX Series switches support two modes of proxy ARP, restricted and unrestricted. Both
modes require that the switch have an active route to the destination address of the ARP
request.
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Restricted—The switch responds to ARP requests in which the physical networks of
the source and target are different and does not respond if the source and target IP
addresses are on the same subnet. In this mode, hosts on the same subnet
communicate without proxy ARP. We recommend that you use this mode on the switch.
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