Chapter 26 IP Source Guard

Table 87 ARP Inspection Status (continued)

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Reason

This field displays the reason the ARP packet was discarded.

 

MAC+VLAN: The MAC address and VLAN ID were not in the

 

binding table.

 

IP: The MAC address and VLAN ID were in the binding table, but

 

the IP address was not valid.

 

Port: The MAC address, VLAN ID, and IP address were in the

 

binding table, but the port number was not valid.

 

 

Delete

Select this, and click Delete to remove the specified entry.

 

 

Cancel

Click this to clear the Delete check boxes above.

 

 

26.6.1 ARP Inspection VLAN Status

Use this screen to look at various statistics about ARP packets in each VLAN. To open this screen, click Advanced Application > IP Source Guard > ARP Inspection > VLAN Status.

Figure 137 ARP Inspection VLAN Status

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 88 ARP Inspection VLAN Status

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Show VLAN range

Use this section to specify the VLANs you want to look at in the

 

section below.

 

 

Enabled VLAN

Select this to look at all the VLANs on which ARP inspection is

 

enabled in the section below.

 

 

Selected VLAN

Select this to look at all the VLANs in a specific range in the

 

section below. Then, enter the lowest VLAN ID (Start VID) and

 

the highest VLAN ID (End VID) you want to look at.

 

 

Apply

Click this to display the specified range of VLANs in the section

 

below.

 

 

VID

This field displays the VLAN ID of each VLAN in the range specified

 

above.

 

 

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