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/usr/sbin/arp hostname /usr/sbin/arp -a /usr/sbin/arp -d hostname /usr/sbin/arp -f filename /usr/sbin/arp -s hostname ether-address [temp][pub][trail]
Use the arp command to display and modify the Internet-to-Ethernet address translation tables used by the address resolution protocol (see arp(7P)). You can specify hostname either by name or by number, using Internet dot notation.
arp is useful as a diagnostic tool to resolve point-to-point connectivity problems. If the ARP table of a host system contains an incorrect entry, the system is unreachable because outgoing packets contain the wrong Ethernet address.
| -a | Display all of the current ARP entries. The following flags ... | |