Chapter 20 Dynamic ARP

20.2 Enabling Dynamic ARP

Click Dynamic ARP > Settings in the navigation panel to open the following screen. Use the Dynamic ARP screen to configure ARP filtering on the specified VLANs.

Figure 84 Dynamic ARP

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 66 ARP Table

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Enable

Select or deselect this to activate or deactivate Dynamic ARP on the switch.

Dynamic ARP

 

 

 

Aging Time

Specify how long (in hours) the switch remembers the learned ARP table entries.

 

Specify “0” to have the switch remember the ARP table entries for an unlimited time

 

period.

 

 

Trusted ports

Packets arriving on trusted ports bypass all Dynamic ARP validation checks, and

 

those arriving on untrusted ports undergo the validation process. Default state of all

 

ports is untrusted.

 

Select the trusted ports for each Dynamic ARP configuration you set up.

 

 

Enable

Select the range of VLANs you want to perform validation checks based on the ARP

Dynamic ARP

entries in the ARP table.

for VLAN from

 

.. to ..

 

 

 

Disable

Select the range of VLANs you want to bypass validation checks based on the ARP

Dynamic ARP

entries in the ARP table.

for VLAN from

 

.. to ..

 

 

 

Current

This field shows the VLANs for which Dynamic ARP validation is enabled.

Enabled

 

VLAN

 

 

 

Apply

Click this to save your settings to the switch.

 

 

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