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arp command in Linux with examples -v, –verbose: This option shows the verbose information.
-n, –numeric: This option shows numerical addresses instead of symbolic host,
arp command manipulates the System’s ARP cache. It also allows a complete dump of port or usernames.
the ARP cache. ARP stands for Address Resolution Protocol. The primary function of this
protocol is to resolve the IP address of a system to its mac address, and hence it works
between level 2(Data link layer) and level 3(Network layer).

Syntax:

arp [-v] [-i if] [-H type] -a [hostname]

Example: Here we created two machines with name machine1 and machine2 with IP ad-
dress 10.0.2.4 and 10.0.2.5
-H type, –hw-type type, -t type: This tells arp which class of entries it should check
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for. Default value is ether. List of possible hardware types(which support ARP) are
ash(Ash), ether(Ethernet), ax25(AMPR AX.25), netrom (AMPR NET/ROM), rose
(AMPR ROSE), arcnet (ARCnet), dlci (Frame Relay DLCI), fddi (Fiber Distributed Data
Interface), hippi (HIPPI), irda (IrLAP), x25 (generic X.25), eui64 (Generic EUI-64).

Addition of host

-a [hostname] –all: This option is used for showing entries of the speci ed host. If
nothing is passed all entries will be displayed.

▲ -d hostname, –delete hostname: Removes any entry for the speci ed host. If any
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Hosts le after adding machines host is down, there is no need of keeeping its entry in arp cache so this command is

used to delete those entries explicitly by the user. Some useful ags are:

-C: Complete entry.

Some useful le related to these data are:

/proc/net/arp
/etc/networks
/etc/hosts/
/etc/ethers
-D, –use-device: Use the given interface’s hardware address.

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