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Gratuitous ARP Settings
An ARP announcement (also known as Gratuitous ARP) is a packet (usually an ARP Request) containing a valid SHA and SPA
for the host which sent it, with TPA equal to SPA. Such a request is not intended to solicit a reply, but merely updates the ARP
caches of other hosts which receive the packet.
This is commonly done by many operating systems on startup, and helps to resolve problems which would otherwise occur if, for
example, a network card had recently been changed (changing the IP address to MAC address mapping) and other hosts still had
the old mapping in their ARP cache
To view this window, click
Administration
>
Gratuitous ARP Settings
, as shown below.
Figure 2 - 55 Gratuitous ARP Settings window
The following fields can be set or viewed:
Parameter Description
Send on IPIF status up
This is used to enable/disable the sending of gratuitous ARP request packets while an IPIF
interface comes up. This is used to automatically announce the interface’s IP address to
other nodes. By default, the state is
Disabled
, and only one ARP packet will be broadcast.
Send on
Duplicate_IP_Detected
This is used to enable/disable the sending of gratuitous ARP request packets while a
duplicate IP is detected. By default, the state is
Disabled
. Duplicate IP detected means that
the system received an ARP request packet that is sent by an IP address that matches the
system’s own IP address.
Gratuitous ARP
Learning
This is used to enable/disable updating ARP cache based on the received gratuitous ARP
packet. If a switch receives a gratuitous ARP packet, it should add or update the ARP
entry. This is
Disabled
by default.
Once you have made the desired gratuitous ARP setting changes, click
Apply
.
To modify a current entry, click the corresponding
Modify
button, which will reveal the following window to be configured:
Figure 2 - 56 Gratuitous ARP Table - Edit window
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