First, the routing switch looks in the ARP cache (not the static ARP table) for an entry that lists the MAC address for the IP address. The cache also lists the port attached to the device and, if the entry is. Switch-A is the core switch which connects to mutliple switches and Switch-B is connected to hosts. A layer-2 interface will not use ARP. Switch would not have an arp entry for 192. 1 as it is not. I am new to Ruckus so maybe I am not looking at this correctly but here it goes I have 2 Ruckus ICX 7850 stack switches that have physical connections to a Checkpoint Firewall (primary and secondary). I can see. Basically determine what each port is connected to, for the entire core and distribution layer of this network topology. Trying to triangulate this information in my mind for each. A routing switch needs to know a destination's MAC address when forwarding traffic, because the routing switch encapsulates the IP packet in a Layer 2 packet (MAC layer packet) and sends the Layer 2 packet to a MAC interface on a device directly attached to the routing switch.
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