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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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arp — Address Resolution Display and Control

Synopsis

/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]

Description

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.

Options

-a Display all of the current ARP entries. The following flags ...
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