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Troubleshooting ARP

Common Error Conditions

OmniSwitch Troubleshooting Guide

September 2005

page 11-5

Common Error Conditions

If the ARP is not getting resolved in either of the two workstations, then the following conditions may
exist:

General health of the switch or NI.

Physical link status might not be operational

MAC address not learned on the port

ARP request not reaching the switch, which may be possible because:

- The workstation is not sending an ARP request

- The workstation is not able to understand the ARP request

- ARP packet might have got corrupted

- Duplicate IP addresses configured on the workstations in the same VLAN

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