CANOGA PERKINS CanogaOS Command Reference User Manual
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CanogaOS Command Line Reference
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Command Syntax 
ip arp inspection validate [src-mac] [dst-mac] [ip] 
no ip arp inspection validate [src-mac] [dst-mac] [ip] 
src-mac
(Optional) Checks the source MAC address in the Ethernet header against the 
sender’s MAC address in the ARP body. This checking is done against both ARP 
requests and responses. 
Note When 
src-mac is enabled, packets with different MAC addresses are
classified as invalid and are dropped.
dst-mac
(Optional) Checks the destination MAC address in the Ethernet header against the 
target MAC address in ARP body. This checking is done for ARP responses. 
Note When 
dst-mac is enabled, the packets with different MAC addresses are
classified as invalid and are dropped.
ip
(Optional) Checks the ARP body for invalid and unexpected IP addresses. 
Addresses include 0.0.0.0, 255.255.255.255, and all IP multicast addresses. 
The sender IP addresses are checked in all ARP requests and responses and 
target IP addresses are checked only in ARP responses. 
 
Default 
Checks are disabled.
 
Command Mode 
Global configuration
 
Usage 
When enabling the checks, specify at least one of the keywords (src-mac, dst-mac, and ip) on the 
command line. Each command overrides the configuration of the previous command. If a command 
enables src and dst mac validations, and a second command enables IP validation only, the src and 
dst mac validations are disabled as a result of the second command. 
The no form of this command disables only the specified checks. If none of the check options are 
enabled, all the checks are disabled. 
 
Examples 
This example show how to enable the source MAC validation: 
Switch# configure terminal 
Switch(config)# ip arp inspection validate src-mac 
 
Related Commands 
arp access-list 
show ip arp inspection 
