Table 11: IP global parameters for routing switches
Parameter
Description
Default
See page
Router ID
The value that routers use
to identify themselves to
other routers when
exchanging route
information. OSPF uses
the router ID to identify
routers.RIP does not use
the router ID.
The lowest-numbered IP
address configured on the
lowest-numbered routing
interface.
on page 150
Address Resolution
Protocol (ARP)
A standard IP mechanism
that routers use to learn
the MAC address of a
device on the network.
The router sends the IP
address of a device in the
ARP request and receives
the device's MAC address
in an ARP reply.
Enabled
on page 151
ARP age
The amount of time the
device keeps a MAC
address learned through
ARP in the device's ARP
cache. The device resets
the timer to zero each time
the ARP entry is refreshed
and removes the entry if
the timer reaches the ARP
age. See
page 130.
Five minutes.
N/A
Proxy ARP
An IP mechanism a router
can use to answer an ARP
request on behalf of a
host, by replying with the
router's own MAC address
instead of the host's.
Disabled
on page 152
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