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Stumped by Wireshark: Router Keeps Sending ARP Requests to Host - Suggestions Needed (alien.top)
submitted 2 years ago by [B] to c/homenetworking@selfhosted.forum
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Hello everyone,

So from my understanding ARP should broadcast, then tables should be updated, and then until an arp table timeout there should be no more need for constant ARP request from say the router to the same host.

When I run wireshark I notice non-broadcast constant arp traffic from my router to my computer. Maybe 20 request in 10 minutes. Its from the router MAC directly to the computers MAC. Why could this be?

Link to Wireshark photo and home network map:

https://imgur.com/a/04eNw3v

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[–] [S, B] 1 point 2 years ago

Hi Im going through it now

i see "Unicast Poll -- Actively poll the remote host by
periodically sending a point-to-point ARP Request
to it, and delete the entry if no ARP Reply is
received from N successive polls. Again, the
timeout should be on the order of a minute, and
typically N is 2."

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im assuming this is what you are referring to. I didn't know this was a thing or common. Why do we have an arp table if we do uni-cast polls as well?

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