"arp" or "ip neigh" showing hardware MAC address as INCOMPLETE or FAILED
Issue
- Losing network connectivity on gateway or router or firewall failover
arpoutput getting Hardware address as(incomplete)
# arp -n
IP address HW type Flags HW address Mask Device
10.0.0.245 (incomplete) eth0
10.0.0.254 ether c 00:21:d7:aa:bb:cc eth0
ip neighbourshows a MAC address asINCOMPLETE
# ip neigh
10.0.0.254 dev eth0 lladdr 00:21:d7:aa:bb:cc REACHABLE
10.0.0.245 dev eth0 INCOMPLETE
10.0.0.235 dev eth0 FAILED
- Cannot see
ARP Replygetting generated in the system after receiving theARP Requestfrom the source host.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- IPv4 network
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