Huawei Quidway S3100 Series User Manual

Operation Manual – ARP
Quidway S3100 Series Ethernet Switches 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
Identifies the type of the protocol used by the
sending device. In TCP/IP, it is usually
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
Type 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 IP

Huawei Quidway S3100 Series Specifications

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Brand	Huawei
Model	Quidway S3100 Series
Category	Switch
Language	English