Imagine a scenario in which a router is connected to a local ethernet network, and to other routers on an internetwork. My question is regarding what is stored in the ARP cache on a host on the local ethernet.

As I understand it entries in the ARP cache will be of the form :-

<ip-address> <MAC-address>

where ip-address is the IP address of an interface on the local ethernet, and MAC-address is the physical address of that interface.

After a ping from the local ethernet to a host somewhere beyond the router, eg to a remote web server, an entry will be created in the ARP cache :-

<ip-addr of default gateway> <MAC-addr of default gateway>,

where the default gateway is the local router interface.

However on a practice CCNA test question, the entry which is made in this situation was stated as :-

<ip-addr of remote web server> <MAC-addr of default gateway>

I think this is incorrect, and only local IP addresses can appear in a host?s ARP cache. That certainly is the case on my own Windows XP PC, which is connected to the internet via a Linksys router/switch. But are there other types of host systems which store the remote IP addresses in the ARP cache ?