ARP -a displays buckets!

[labman53]

When I typed arp -a on my AIX 5.2 system, I expected to see
IP addresses and their corresponding MAC addresses, but
instead I saw the following:

bucket: 0 contains 0 entries
bucket: 1 contains 0 entries

and so on, all the way to bucket 72. What am I doing wrong?

 

[ademeter]

Hi,
you should see the following:

# arp -a | more
ws01.aaa.com (192.168.0.1) at 0:2:b3:b3:7c:4b [ethernet] stored in bucket 67

bucket: 0 contains: 0 entries
bucket: 1 contains: 0 entries
bucket: 2 contains: 0 entries
...
bucket: 67 contains: 1 entries
bucket: 68 contains: 0 entries
bucket: 69 contains: 0 entries
bucket: 70 contains: 0 entries
bucket: 71 contains: 0 entries
bucket: 72 contains: 0 entries

There are 1 entries in the arp table.

If you do not see anything, then ping any known IP address on your local subnet and check the arp again.

 

[labman53]

wow, do I feel stupid! Thanks!

 

[sushveer]

Hi Labman

You are not wrong!arp table entries are perfect...

sushveer
IBM certified specialist-p-series AIX5L System Administration
AIX/SOLARIS/WEBSPHERE-MQ/TIVOLI Administrator