A lot of ARP-requests

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hello Forum,

I noticed a lot of ARP-requests from my openwrt-firewall. Mostly asking for always the same Adress (which is my Linux System running in a VM). I am asking myself if this is quite usual, or if there is something strange.
Can anyone help to find a reason ?

thanks in advice
Frank

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https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-address-resolution-protocol-arp-works/ may help.

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Do you have a loop in your network topology?
So maybe this is an ARP Broadcast storm.

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How many per minute per host on average?

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about 10 per minutes for that certain host

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That's not a lot. I was assuming you were going to say hundreds or thousands a second.

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Thanks a lot. So, there is nothing to worry about

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