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Incomplete ARP entry

Chennai NOC
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When i try to ping a machine im not getting a reply but when i clear the arp entries im getting a reply.What are all the possible cause for Incomplete ARP entries in a switch.

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schmidta
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When you ping a PC and there is no valid arp entry in the arp-table of the L3-Switch,

the Switch initiate an ARP-Request to the network and waiting for response form the PC. Until there is no answer the ARP-Entry for the ip-address is shown as INCOMPLETE. This is normal behaviour.

You must clean the arp-table in order to ping a PC, when the mac-adress to this ip-adress was changed and the PC didnt't send a gratious arp to the L3-Switch to renew the arp-entry.