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This document describes a lab examining ARP requests, tables, and the ARP process. The lab has students generate ARP requests by pinging between devices and examine ARP packets, tables, and how switches and routers learn MAC addresses to route traffic.

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This document describes a lab examining ARP requests, tables, and the ARP process. The lab has students generate ARP requests by pinging between devices and examine ARP packets, tables, and how switches and routers learn MAC addresses to route traffic.

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Lab # 07

OBJECT
In this lab, you will examine an ARP Request, ARP Table and analyze
ARP Process in Remote Communications.

LAB TASK:
1. Examine an ARP Request:
Generate ARP requests by pinging 172.16.31.3 from 172.16.31.2.
Open a command prompt
a. Click 172.16.31.2 and open the Command Prompt.
b. Enter the arp -d command to clear the ARP table.
c. Enter Simulation mode and enter the command ping 172.16.31.3. Two PDUs will be
generated. The ping command cannot complete the ICMP packet without knowing the
MAC address of the destination. So the computer sends an ARP broadcast frame to find
the MAC address of the destination.
d. Click Capture/Forward once. The ARP PDU moves Switch1 while the ICMP PDU
disappears, waiting for the ARP reply. Open the PDU and record the destination MAC
address.

Question:
Is this address listed in the table above?
Ans.

e. Click Capture/Forward to move the PDU to the next device.


Question:
How many copies of the PDU did Switch1 make?
Ans.

What is the IP address of the device that accepted the PDU?


Ans.

f. Open the PDU and examine Layer 2.


Question:
What happened to the source and destination MAC addresses?
Ans.

g. Click Capture/Forward until the PDU returns to 172.16.31.2.


Question:
How many copies of the PDU did the switch make during the ARP reply?
Ans.

2. Examine the ARP table.

a. Note that the ICMP packet reappears. Open the PDU and examine the MAC
addresses.
Question:
Do the MAC addresses of the source and destination align with their IP addresses?
Ans.

b. Switch back to Realtime and the ping completes.


c. Click 172.16.31.2 and enter the arp –a command.
Question:
To what IP address does the MAC address entry correspond?
Ans.

3. Examine a Switch MAC Address Table


Generate additional traffic to populate the switch MAC address table.
Open a command prompt
a. From 172.16.31.2, enter the ping 172.16.31.4 command.
b. Click 10.10.10.2 and open the Command Prompt.
c. Enter the ping 10.10.10.3 command.
Question:
How many replies were sent and received?
Ans.
4. Examine the ARP Process in Remote Communications
Generate traffic to produce ARP traffic.
Open a command prompt
a. Click 172.16.31.2 and open the Command Prompt.
b. Enter the ping 10.10.10.1 command.
c. Type arp –a.
Question:
What is the IP address of the new ARP table entry?
Ans.

d. Enter arp -d to clear the ARP table and switch to Simulation mode.
e. Repeat the ping to 10.10.10.1.
Question:
How many PDUs appear?
Ans.

f. Click Capture/Forward. Click the PDU that is now at Switch1.


Question:
What is the target destination IP destination address of the ARP request?
Ans.

5. Examine the ARP table on Router1


Switch to Realtime mode. Click Router1 and then the CLI tab.
b. Enter privileged EXEC mode and then the show mac-address-table command.
Question:
How many MAC addresses are in the table? Why?
Ans.

c. Enter the show arp command.


Questions:
Is there an entry for 172.16.31.2?
Ans.

EXERCISES:

(1) What happens to the first ping in a situation where the router responds to
the ARP request?

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(2) In general, when does an end device issue an ARP request?

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