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ARP: Address Resolution Protocol

Surasak Sanguanpong nguan@ku.ac.th http://www.cpe.ku.ac.th/~nguan

Last updated: July 3, 2002

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Agenda

• Introduction to ARP
• ARP functionality
• Proxy ARP
• RARP

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ARP protocol

• ARP maps any

network level address (such as IP address) to its corresponding data link address (such as Ethernet address)

FTP TELNET SMTP HTTP X-window DNS

TCP UDP

SNMP NFS TFTP BOOTP

IP

ICMP IGMP ARP RARP

NNTP Others

RFC 826 - Ethernet Address

Resolution Protocol (STD0037)

ARP is a supported protocol in the

data link layers, not data link layer protocol

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ARP and RARP

ARP RARP

Logical address physical address Logical address physical address

• ARP maps a logical address to a

physical address

• i.e., IP address to Ethernet address
• RARP maps a physical address to a

logical address

• i.e., Ethernet address to IP address

Address Resolution Protocol Reverse Address Resolution Protocol

ARP and RARP perform dynamic mapping between

logical addresses and physical addresses

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Ethernet frame

158.108.1.2 8:0:20:7a:49:68 158.108.1.10 00:10:4B:13:0A:BC

158.108.1.2 158.108.1.10 ………. 8:0:20:7a:49:68 ?? type

Destination Address Source Address IP source address IP destination Address

Ethernet Header 158.108.1.2 need to know the Ethernet address of 158.108.1.10 to create the complete Ethernet frame …. IP Datagram Ethernet Frame

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ARP in operation

158.108.1.2 8:0:20:7a:49:68 158.108.1.5 00:10:4B:13:0A:BC ARP request

• A want to resolve

MAC address of D

• A sends a broadcast

ARP request

158.108.1.2 8:0:20:7a:49:68 158.108.1.5 00:10:4B:13:0A:BC ARP reply

A B C D A B C D

• D sends a unicast

ARP reply to A

who has IP 158.108.1.5? me! with 00:10:4B:13:0A:BC

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ARP mechanisms

• Each node maintains the ARP cache

it first looks in the cache to find entry first if the entry is not used for a period (~15 minutes), it is deleted.

• Receive node can adds an MAC addr entry for source

station in its own cache.

• ARP traffic load

hosts quickly add cache entries. If all hosts on a subnet are booted at the same time? => flurry

• f ARP requests and reply.

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ARP as a command line

% arp -a www.cpe.ku.ac.th (158.108.33.5) at 0:0:e8:15:cc:c % telnet cc : % arp -a router.cpe.ku.ac.th (158.108.33.1) at 0:0:c:6:13:4a cc.cpe.ku.ac.th (158.108.33.2) at 2:60:8c:2e:b5:8b www.cpe.ku.ac.th (158.108.33.5) at 0:0:e8:15:cc:c

more entries added entry in ARP table

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ARP packet

frame hdr ARP/RARP message

datalink frame 0 15 16 31

Hardware type:16 Protocol type:16 hlen:8 plen:8 ARP Operation:16 Sender MAC addr (bytes 0-3)

sender MAC addr (bytes 4-5) sender IP addr (bytes 0-1) sender IP addr (bytes 2-3) dest MAC addr (bytes 0-1)

dest MAC addr (bytes 2-5) dest IP addr (bytes 0-3)

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Header details

hardware type : Ethernet=1 ARCNET=7, localtalk=11 protocol type : IP=0x800 hlen : length of hardware address, Ethernet=6 bytes plen : length of protocol address, IP=4 bytes ARP operation : ARP request = 1, ARP reply = 2

RARP request = 3, RARP reply = 4

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ARP request packet

Sample ARP request Ethernet packet

dest MAC (broadcast) source MAC ARP frame type Ethernet / IP MAC=6/ IP=4 /request source MAC source IP dest MAC (unknown) dest IP Ethernet CRC

158.108.1.2 8:0:20:7a:49:68 158.108.1.5 00:10:4B:13:0A:BC FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF 02:60:8c:2e:b5:8b 0x806 0x001 0x800 0x06 0x04 0x01 8:0:20:7a:49:68 0:0:0:0:0:0 158.108.1.2 158.108.1.5 CRC ARP request

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ARP reply packet

Sample ARP reply Ethernet packet

dest MAC (broadcast) source MAC ARP frame type Ethernet / IP MAC=6/ IP=4 /request source MAC source IP dest MAC (unknown) dest IP Ethernet CRC

158.108.1.2 8:0:20:7a:49:68 158.108.1.5 00:10:4B:13:0A:BC 8:0:20:7a:49:68 00:10:4B:13:0A:BC 0x806 0x001 0x800 0x06 0x04 0x02 00:10:4B:13:0A:BC 8:0:20:7a:49:68 158.108.1.5 158.108.1.2 CRC ARP reply

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Proxy ARP

• One node answers ARP request for another: Router R

answers for Y

IP: 158.108.33.2 MAC: 02:60:8c:2e:b5:8b IP:158.108.40.1 MAC: 00:00:e8:15:cb:0c IP:158.108.33.1 MAC: 00:00:0c:06:13:4a

X to Y request

X R Y

R send 158.108.40.1 with 00:00:0c:06:13:4a Useful when some nodes on a network cannot

support subnet

X do not understand subnet, so it thinks that

Y is on the same subnet

Router must be configured to be a proxy ARP

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RARP

• Reverse ARP : map MAC addr to IP addr
• For device that can not store IP, usually diskless

workstations

• Need to setup server wit RARP table
• Use the same frame format

0x0835 for Ethernet RARP request

• peration 0x003 = RARP request

0x004 = RARP reply

• RARP can not operate across router, BOOTP is more

spread