Operation Manual – ARP
H3C S5100-SI/EI Series Ethernet Switches
Chapter 1 ARP Configuration
1-3
Table 1-2
Description on the values of the hardware type field
Value
Description
1 Ethernet
2 Experimental
Ethernet
3 X.25
4
Proteon ProNET (Token Ring)
5 Chaos
6 IEEE802.X
7 ARC
network
1.1.3 ARP Table
In an Ethernet, the MAC addresses of two hosts must be available for the two hosts to
communicate with each other. Each host in an Ethernet maintains an ARP table, where
the latest used IP address-to-MAC address mapping entries are stored. S5100-SI/EI
series Ethernet switches provide the
display arp
command to display the information
about ARP mapping entries.
ARP entries in an S5100-SI/EI series Ethernet switch can either be static entries or
dynamic entries, as described in
Table 1-3
.
Table 1-3
ARP entries
ARP entry
Generation Method
Maintenance Mode
Static ARP entry
Manually configured
Manual maintenance
Dynamic ARP entry
Dynamically generated
ARP entries of this type
age with time. The aging
period is set by the ARP
aging timer.