I probably shouldn't reply to this. I have some experience with CISCO equipment. @Lurick would know more. What do you need?

Thou hath summoned me?

I'm sorted now, thanks tho 

Was having an issue with some VLAN routing

Was a trunk issue 

I did have training on configuring inter-VLAN routing, trunk ports, and dot1Q encapsulation on router sub-interfaces so I probably could have helped...

...but all's well that ends well, glad you figured it out.

@Lurick

I has a question good sir. 

It was something I noticed when playing in Packet Tracer. 

So, with ARP, if the destination IP address is on a different subnet, it will send it to its default gateway, yes? 

Now, when the host on the other subnet receives the packet, from my packet tracer model, it looked as though the receiving host sent the reply to its default gateway. 

Now, would the reply not be a unicast message direct to the sending host? As its mac address would have been added to the table from when it sent the ARP request? 

Basically, I'm confused why the reply seemed to go to the default gateway 

Ah, that's because ARP is only for the same subnet as the host. If it's on a different subnet then it might ARP for the default gateway if that's not known but after that it will send the packet to the default gateway for routing at that point and the broadcast message would stop at that boundary.

Are you asking why the network switch isn't forwarding the request directly between the clients? Or rather why the response to a request isn't being forwarded directly to the requesting client?