Huawei Quidway S5600 Series User Manual

Operation Manual – ARP
Quidway S5600 Series Ethernet Switches-Release 1510 Chapter 1 ARP Configuration
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Field Description
Protocol type
Identifies the type of the protocol used by the
sending device. Normally, the field takes the
value of 1 in TCP/IP networks, which stands
for EtherType.
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
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.
Note that this manual only introduces the basic implementation of the mapping table.
Different products of different manufactures may provide more information about the

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Brand	Huawei
Model	Quidway S5600 Series
Category	Switch
Language	English