As I understand things... An ARP request is a system querying an IP address and asking for the MAC associated with that address. Routers and switches send to MACs not IPs (right?) so they need to know ...

In March we introduced the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), a half-brother to the TCP/IP stack that maps the logical IP address space into the real world of Ethernet hardware addresses. We didn’t ...

I'm still having some performance problems on my LAN. I have 5 Netgear FS524S switches in a stack, and about 80 or so devices. Running a sniffer shows what I worry is a lot of ARP traffic, but I'm not ...