-a Displays all of the current ARP entries.
-d hostname Deletes the entry for hostname if the user
issuing the command is a privileged user.
-s hostname Creates a single ARP entry for hostname. Use
hardware_addr of this flag requires privileges. Here:
[temp] [pub] hostname Specifies the remote host
identified by the entry.
hardware_ Specifies the hardware address
addr of the remote host. The address
is given as 6 hexadecimal bytes
separated by colons.
temp Specifies that this ARP table entry
is temporary. When this argument
is not used, the table entry is
permanent.
pub Indicates that the table entry will
be published and that the current
system will act as an ARP server,
responding to requests for hostname
even though the host address is not
its own.
[-u] Displays the MAC address in noncanonical form
with address bytes reversed and separated by a
colon character (:). By default, all addresses
are displayed in canonical form with address
bytes separated by the hyphen character (-).
When used with the -s flag, this indicates
that the hardware_addr is in noncanonical
form.