Hi all,

I know what ARP and RARP are and I know what they do. They map the MAC to IP and IP to MAC. It helps to make sure that only one machine on a network has only one IP address and helps to make sure that they are not duplicated elsewhere on the network.

I saw that disabling Gratuitous ARP can help with network performance and maintence.
Is that the same thing as disabling ARP requests?

If you were to disable it, it wouldn't matter becuase your switches and routers keep a list of them and would know where to send the traffic?
So... there is really no reason for a workstatoin to be making ARP requests?

Is it worth disabling it? Are there any security reasons for disabling or keeping it enabled?