Re: Help on data from wiresharck

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>]

On 3 October 2017 at 10:24, Antonio Bernabei <abernabei () otticabernabei com>
wrote:

> Hello
>
> I have just installed wireshark and I have this line
>
> 2336    191.200998    HuaweiTe_21:8d:a5    Broadcast    ARP 60    Who has
> 169.254.88.123? Tell 192.168.1.111
>
> What is happening?
>
> 192.168.1.111 is a gateway on our lan
>
> Thanks
>
> Antonio Bernabei
This is an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) request, and is normal for an
Ethernet network.  The gateway is requesting the MAC address for the host
that is using IP 169.254.88.123 as it presumably has some IP traffic for it.

See the Wireshark Wiki page for more info:
https://wiki.wireshark.org/AddressResolutionProtocol

-- 
Graham Bloice

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