Re: [Ethereal-users] information

[Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.