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Protocol:	ARP	Wiki	Freetz	IPPF	whmf	AVM	Web
Short for:	Address Resolution Protocol
Location:	Lexicon >> Network-Protocols
Weblinks:	Wikipedia.int  -  Wikipedia.de   -  RFC-826
Description:	Lookup the MAC address of an IPv4 address

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Details

ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) is a protocol to lookup the link layer address of an internet / network layer address.
It translates a layer-3 address into a layer-2 address and is mainly used to lookup the MAC address of an IPv4 address.

In IPv6 networks NDP does a similar job. The reverse of ARP is the obsolete RARP protocol.

FRITZ!OS

ARP is one of the sources to fill the MAC address list maintained by multid or rextd.

Kernel

FRITZ!OS is based on Linux which maintains an ARP cache. It could be accessed by:

root@fritz1:/var/mod/root# cat /proc/net/arp

IP address       HW type     Flags       HW address            Mask     Device
192.168.179.3    0x1         0x2         00:24:be:xx:xx:xx     *        guest
192.168.178.124  0x1         0x2         00:23:8b:xx:xx:xx     *        lan
192.168.178.113  0x1         0x2         44:39:c4:xx:xx:xx     *        lan
192.168.178.2    0x1         0x2         c8:0e:14:xx:xx:xx     *        lan
192.168.178.109  0x1         0x2         00:1a:a0:xx:xx:xx     *        lan
192.168.178.4    0x1         0x2         cc:ce:1e:xx:xx:xx     *        lan

Shell

A tool to list and manipulate the ARP cache is the arp command:

root@fritz1:/var/mod/root# arp -a

? (192.168.179.3) at 00:24:be:xx:xx:xx [ether]  on guest
pc2.fritz.box (192.168.178.124)  at 00:23:8b:xx:xx:xx [ether]  on lan
pc1.fritz.box (192.168.178.113)  at 44:39:c4:xx:xx:xx [ether]  on lan
fritz2.fritz.box (192.168.178.2) at c8:0e:14:xx:xx:xx [ether]  on lan
pc3.fritz.box (192.168.178.109)  at 00:1a:a0:xx:xx:xx [ether]  on lan
fritz5.fritz.box (192.168.178.4) at cc:ce:1e:xx:xx:xx [ether]  on lan

For the BCM63 models 7581 and 7582 AVM developed the custom busybox command sendarp.

See also the arp(8) man page.

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