Edge-Core ECS4660-28F, Management Manual, Page: 748 / 2020

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| General IP Routing
Address Resolution Protocol
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If IP routing is enabled (page 769 ), the router uses its routing tables to
make routing decisions, and uses Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) to
forward traffic from one hop to the next. ARP is used to map an IP address
to a physical layer (i.e., MAC) address. When an IP frame is received by
this router (or any standards-based router), it first looks up the MAC
address corresponding to the destination IP address in the ARP cache. If
the address is found, the router writes the MAC address into the
appropriate field in the frame header, and forwards the frame on to the
next hop. IP traffic passes along the path to its final destination in this way,
with each routing device mapping the destination IP address to the MAC
address of the next hop toward the recipient, until the packet is delivered
to the final destination.
If there is no entry for an IP address in the ARP cache, the router will
broadcast an ARP request packet to all devices on the network. The ARP
request contains the following fields similar to that shown in this example:
When devices receive this request, they discard it if their address does not
match the destination IP address in the message. However, if it does
match, they write their own hardware address into the destination MAC
address field and send the message back to the source hardware address.
When the source device receives a reply, it writes the destination IP
address and corresponding MAC address into its cache, and forwards the IP
traffic on to the next hop. As long as this entry has not timed out, the
router will be able forward traffic directly to the next hop for this
destination without having to broadcast another ARP request.
Also, if the switch receives a request for its own IP address, it will send
back a response, and also cache the MAC of the source device's IP address.
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Use the IP > ARP (Configure General) page to specify the timeout for ARP
cache entries, or to enable Proxy ARP for specific VLAN interfaces.
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"arp timeout" on page 1656
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"ip proxy-arp" on page 1657
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Proxy ARP
Table 50: Address Resolution Protocol
destination IP address 10.1.0.19
destination MAC address ?
source IP address 10.1.0.253
source MAC address 00-00-ab-cd-00-00