Patent ID: 11876773
Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) learning method, comprising:
determining, by a forwarding chip, an IP address of a target device;
when an MAC address corresponding to the IP address of the target device is not stored in an ARP forwarding table, generating and broadcasting, by the forwarding chip, an ARP request message, wherein the ARP request message comprises the IP address of the target device;
receiving, by the forwarding chip, an ARP response message fed back by the target device, wherein the ARP response message comprises an MAC address of the target device; and
writing, by the forwarding chip, the IP address of the target device and the MAC address corresponding to the IP address into an ARP forwarding table.