Laboratory Activity 7: ARP

Juan Glicerio C. Manlapaz

Department of Electronics, Computer,and Communications Engineering
Ateneo de Manila University
Quezon City, Philippines
juan.manlapaz@obf.ateneo.edu

I. METHODOLOGY C. Display the ARP Table

A. List of Materials utilized The ARP table is displayed by running the command
arp -a which lists all IP addresses and their respective
For this lab activity, the personal laptop was used to
MAC physical addresses and type (whether it is dynamic or
enable and configure the address resolution protocol (ARP).
static). Figure 3 shows the results.
B. Procedure
The main objective of this experiment was to introduce
the address resolution protocol and the use of a computer’s
command prompt in configuring ARP commands.
II. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
A. Establishing a network connection
To begin the activity, the laptop is connected to the home
network as seen in Figure 1.

Figure 3: List of all IP addresses from the arp -a command

To demonstrate ARP, several IP addresses were pinged.

Figure 4 shows the command ping 192.168.1.64
which is the IP address of the Samsung A50 phone.
Figure 1: Control Panel Window showing the status of Internet Connection
of the laptop.

This is needed in order to access the different network

details in the Command Prompt.
B. Accessing the Command Prompt
Once the connection is established, the Command
Prompt is accessed as an Administrator. This is needed
because ARP involves all possible users in the computer
which is a benefit for Administrator commands. The
window of the Administrator Command Prompt is seen in
Figure 2. Figure 4: Ping results of the Samsung A50’s IP address

After pinging those IP addresses, the arp -a command

is run again and Figure 5 shows the results. It shows that the
IP address of the phone has been added in the dynamic IP
addresses in the ARP.

Figure 2: Administrator Command Prompt window

Figure 5: List of all IP addresses from the arp -a command

D.Results from pinging several URLs

Figures 6 to 8 show the IP addresses of the websites of
Google, Facebook, and Cisco, respectively.

Figure 9: Results from the arp -? command

F. Using the tracert and ping help feature

Figure 10 shows the results of the tracert help feature by
typing the command tracert -?. This shows that the
Figure 6: Ping results of www.google.com said command is functioning.

Figure 7: Ping results of www.cisco.com

Figure 10: Results from the tracert -? command

Figure 11 shows the results of the ping help feature by

typing the command ping -?. This shows that the said
command is functioning.

Figure 8: Ping results of www.facebook.com

E. Using the ARP help feature

Figure 9 shows the results of the ARP help feature by
typing the command arp -?. This shows that the said
command is functioning.

Figure 11: Results from the ping -? command