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Is it normal to see "excessive" ARP requests from cable modem?

I'm troubleshooting my home network because we are having frequent outages and slow connections. Very often the ASUS Wifi router shows that it has no WAN IP address. To view what might be going on I ...
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Windows PC sends ARP requests to outside subnet

I have a strange behaviour. I am seeing arp requests to another subnet. We have a central DHCP at ....0.2.21. The Client has an adress assigned from it ....1.1.20, with a 24 bit netmask. The Client ...
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Severe ARP flooding from PC requesting link-local address

TLDR; PC is sending ARP Who is requests for a link local address 169.254.xxx.xxx continuously every second. Only on this device. My PC begins to send constant ARP requests to the router for "Who ...
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How to Wake on WAN without broadcast address?

--- Recap of the possible solutions at the bottom --- First of all I apologize if I write something that makes no sense. My knowledge of networks didn't go beyond what an IP address is until 3 days ...
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Connection issues when router in bridge mode is between modem-router and user device

I decided to extend my home network's wireless coverage by utilizing a spare router. Both routers are modem-routers and have been provided by different internet providers the previous years. So, their ...
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Need of ARP request before DHCP Offer [duplicate]

When I connect my system with Router, the IP address is assigned by DHCP Server in that router. When the DHCP Request goes to the DHCP server from the system, it offers the IP address as broadcast. ...
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Correlation between DHCP and ARP

Can someone explain why there are so many ARP packets broadcasted from my client? And why is looking for my DHCP server?
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No response to embedded system's ARP request after successful DHCP

I've been working to get UDP unicast packets implemented on an embedded system, using a Wiznet W5100S internet offload chip. Their libraries enable the negotiation of DHCP, and I have successfully ...
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Workaround for two devices with the same IP address on an airgapped network which is using an unmanaged switch where DHCP isn’t an option

So I have two IP cameras and a PC running Fedora 30 on a local network connected together using an unmanaged switch. The two IP cameras have the same IP address by default and for reasons I won’t go ...
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Find out which access point devices are connected to

I work in a school and we have a multitude of access points dotted around the site. We have an open WiFi connection throughout that is locked down using a mac address filter. We are currently having ...
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Almosy locked out of PfSense after setting static ARP table

So I almost locked out myself from pfsense after setting static ARP table in the dhcp severs's conf. Now, I can't access pfsense from the network (nor ssh, nor webgui) because every request times out....
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What is the difference between ARP binding and DHCP address reservation?

In my TL-WR1043ND I have these functionalities and both of them pair an IP address to a MAC address. What is the difference? I read that ARP is for security reasons, others say it is for Wake-on-LAN. ...
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dhcp no lease because of not-DAD mode

My virtual machine does not receive an IP lease anymore. Manually requesting a new ip lease by 'ifdown/ifup eth0' or 'dhclient eth0' or 'service network restart' don't work either. The error is ...
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