1-8 
Operation  Command  Remarks 
Quit to system view 
quit 
— 
Enable the port state 
auto-recovery function 
arp protective-down recover 
enable 
Optional 
By default, the port state 
auto-recovery function is 
disabled. 
Configure the port state 
auto-recovery interval 
arp protective-down recover 
interval interval 
Optional 
By default, when the port state 
auto-recovery function is 
enabled, the port state 
auto-recovery interval is 300 
seconds. 
 
 
z  You need to enable the port state auto-recovery feature before you can configure the port state 
auto-recovery interval. 
z  You are not recommended to configure the ARP packet rate limit function on the ports of an 
aggregation group. 
 
Gratuitous ARP Packet Configuration 
Table 1-7 Configure the gratuitous ARP packet 
Operation  Command  Remarks 
Enter system view 
system-view 
— 
Enable the gratuitous 
ARP packet learning 
function 
gratuitous-arp-learning 
enable 
Required 
By default, the gratuitous ARP packet 
learning function is disabled. 
 
 
The sending of gratuitous ARP packets is enabled as long as a Switch 4210 operates. No command is 
needed for enabling this function. That is, the device sends gratuitous ARP packets whenever a VLAN 
interface is enabled (such as when a link is enabled or an IP address is configured for the VLAN 
interface) or whenever the IP address of a VLAN interface is changed.  
 
Displaying and Debugging ARP 
After the above configuration, you can execute the display command in any view to display the running 
of the ARP configuration, and to verify the effect of the configuration. 
You can execute the reset command in user view to clear ARP entries.