ARP(8) | System Manager's Manual | ARP(8) |
arp
— address
resolution display and control
arp |
[-adn ] [-V
rdomain] hostname |
arp |
[-F ] [-f
file] [-V
rdomain] -s
hostname ether_addr [temp |
permanent ] [pub ] |
arp |
-W ether_addr
[iface] |
The arp
program displays and modifies the
Internet-to-Ethernet address translation tables used by the address
resolution protocol (ARP).
arp
displays the current ARP entry for
hostname when no optional parameters are supplied.
hostname may be specified by name or by number, using
Internet dot notation.
arp
can also be used to send Wake on LAN
(WoL) frames over a local Ethernet network to one or more hosts using their
link layer (hardware) addresses. WoL functionality is generally enabled in a
machine's BIOS and can be used to power on machines from a remote system
without having physical access to them.
The options are as follows:
-a
-d
option below.-d
-d
flag may be combined with
the -a
flag to delete all entries, with hostname
lookups automatically disabled. Only the superuser may delete
entries.-F
-f
and -s
options).-f
file-F
is given. Entries in
the file should be of the form:
temp
| permanent
]
[pub
]The entry will be static (will not time out) unless
the word temp
is given in the command. A static
ARP entry can be overwritten by network traffic, unless the word
permanent
is given. If the word
pub
is given, the entry will be
“published”; that is, this system will act as an ARP
server, responding to requests for hostname even
though the host address is not its own. This behavior has traditionally
been called proxy
ARP.
-n
arp
attempts to display addresses symbolically).-s
hostname ether_addr [temp
|
permanent
] [pub
]The permanent
,
pub
, or temp
modifiers
may be specified with meanings as given above.
If the entry already exists for the given host, it will not be
replaced unless -F
is given.
-V
rdomain-W
ether_addr [iface]View the current arp(4) table, showing network addresses symbolically:
$ arp -a
Create a permanent entry (one that cannot be overwritten by other network traffic):
# arp -s 10.0.0.2 00:90:27:bb:cc:dd
permanent
Create proxy ARP entries on interface fxp0 (MAC address 00:90:27:bb:cc:dd), for IP addresses 204.1.2.3 and 204.1.2.4:
# arp -s 204.1.2.3 00:90:27:bb:cc:dd pub # arp -s 204.1.2.4 00:90:27:bb:cc:dd pub
The arp
command appeared in
4.3BSD. Wake on LAN functionality was added in
OpenBSD 4.9.
February 26, 2014 | OpenBSD-5.5 |