H3C S3600 Series User Manual

Operation Manual – ARP
H3C S3600 Series Ethernet Switches-Release 1510 Chapter 1 ARP Configuration
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Table 1-1 Description on the fields of an ARP packet
Field Description
Hardware Type
Identifies the type of the hardware interface.
Refer to
Table 1-2 for the information about the
field values.
Protocol type
Type of protocol address to be mapped. 0x0800
indicates an IP address.
Length of the hardware address Hardware address length (in bytes)
Length of protocol address Protocol address length (in bytes)
Operator
Indicates the type of a data packets, which can
be:
z 1: ARP request packets
z 2: ARP reply packets
z 3: RARP request packets
z 4: RARP reply packets
Hardware address of the sender Hardware address of the sender
IP address of the sender IP address of the sender
Hardware address of the
receiver
z For an ARP request packet, this field is null.
z For an ARP reply packet, this field carries
the hardware address of the receiver.
IP address of the receiver IP address of the receiver
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 mapping
table, where the latest used IP address-to-MAC address mapping entries are stored.

H3C S3600 Series Specifications

General

Brand	H3C
Model	S3600 Series
Category	Switch
Language	English