Questions tagged [arp]

Address Resolution Protocol is a layer 2 networking protocol used for resolving layer 3 addresses (such as IP addresses) into layer 2 addresses (such as Ethernet MACs). It is used by network devices when communicating with devices on the same layer 2 network.

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Preventing ARP reply messages for IP address from unauthorized port/mac

I have a number of servers running on Dell switches which are used by clients for their projects. Occasionally some clients put other client IP addresses on their server (presumably by accident) and even though I can prevent them from using those IP…
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Finding ip address from mac addess

I have router in bridge mode which is installed Openwrt and I want to find IP address of devices which are connected to the router. Since router is in bridge mode, I can not find IP from DHCP leases, but I can find mac address of connected…
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TCP connection RST after FIN, ACK

I have a situation that would like to clarify with the experts here. I am no network expert so maybe it's normal, but i rather ask. We are trying to diagnose a problem between two servers, both are virtual servers, one is windows and the other is…
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Understanding arp request tcpdump

I noticed the below tcp dump when pinging a docker container B on bridge B from a docker container A on bridge A. Container A: 10.0.0.3 / 02:42:0a:00:00:03 Container B: 10.0.0.4 / 02:42:0a:00:00:04 What I don't understand in the below dump…
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Block ARP on Router

Is it possible to somehow block ARP on a home wireless network router? Basically I don't want the access point to forward ARP packets between clients. It would also be fine if the access point completely blocks communications between clients. I…
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Juniper EX3200 connected to Cisco 2900 series router - incomplete ARP entry

I'm tying to connect a Call Manager Express running on a Cisco 2900 series router to a Juniper EX3200 switch. I have both configured on VLAN 4, with both ports in access mode but when I connect the switch to the router, although I get the link light…
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ESX 6 arp fails in back 2 back link

Having a strange problem with back 2 back connection between an ESX 6 and CentOS 7 machine. We are using a CentOS 7 directly connected to ESX and we use it as iSCSI NAS - from time to time the ESX says it cannot see the NAS and the corresponding…
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Xen networking - dom0 receives ARP requests but no reachability

Both dom0 and domU are Debian 8. Dom0 network configuration is: auto xenbr0 iface xenbr0 inet manual bridge_ports eth1 bridge_stp off bridge_waitport 0 bridge_fd 0 auto xenbr0.4 iface xenbr0.4 inet static address 192.168.4.13 …
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Accessing a server with wrong IP out of segment range

I have run into a similar problem as in this question about a wrong IP in LAN. However, the standard addr alias trick on the NIC did not help. I have no direct access to the server console, I might get physical access in a week or more if I'm lucky,…
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Arp request for a non-existing host in a local network

I'm wondering why I get the following result : if I try to access a non-existing host on my local network, for instance using the command ping, I see with the tcpdump arp command that there is every second a who-has request sent by my computer but…
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Broadcast ARP query to all nodes?

I am trying to broadcast an ARP query. I want to get every node's ip and mac address updated in my system via this query. So that I can type $arp and see all the nodes on my network and their corresponding physical addresses. I have tried $ arping…
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Windows 8.1 Limited Connectivity (on Steroids)

About two weeks ago we performed maintenance on our on-premise infrastructure in our office. Including applying updates to our Hyper-V-based virtual hosts, as well as our SAN. We also modified some settings on our six Cisco Aironet 1040 access…
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Scanning network devices by mac address

I work in the security devices industry and most of my work relates to IP cameras. Each camera manufacturer has their own software that scans the network for their cameras and gives details about those cameras even if they have no assigned ip…
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New server unreachable for a time after swapping IP address

I am migrating nearly 20 websites from a win 2003 server to a win 2012 server. Both are VMware VM's, on different boxes, but in the same server room, and attached to the same switch. The 2003 server has one NIC and an IP address per site. IIS is…
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How to reverse arp using nping for Windows

I would like to send a reverse ARP to resolve an IP address given a MAC address using nping for Windows. The documentation is not clear on how this should work and I'm unable to find any examples online. Can anybody assist? Here is what I have…
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