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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 09:23:14 -0500
Ikram Muhammad wrote:

> ARP is Address resolution Protocol. It is normal to have this kind of traffic.

Some ARPs are normal, but an excessive amount (e.g. several per second)
can indicate a problem.  Port scans, faulty network stacks, and simply
having too many hosts on a network segment can generate a lot of ARP
requests.
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