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What does ARP mean? That night, the NAS was on and off, arp -a checked and saw two devices competing for the same IP
My cousin's NAS had another issue: ping kept coming in and losing it, and Synology even detected IP conflicts in the background. He had him type arp -a twice remotely, and the MAC address corresponding to the same IP was changing, confirming that two devices were competing for one address. What is ARP, how to read the ARP table, and how to spot conflicts with free ARP—this article explains everything clearly....
