Router is continually broadcasting the same ARP request, with the exact contents

arpnetworkingwireshark

I hope the question is clear and that this is correct place to post the question.

My router is broadcasting the same ARP frame over and over (once every second). It's probably not a big deal, but I want to understand what is going on here.

The request info according to Wireshark is: "who has 10.1.1.111? Tell 10.1.1.1"

Which is weird cause the only occupied IPs are up to 10.1.1.8

Thank you.

Best Answer

The obvious answer is that something is trying to send traffic through your router to 10.1.1.111 and the router is trying to locate that address on your network.

Whether that's the result of something else on your network, a bug in some of the code on the router, or external traffic that a rule on your router is attempting to forward is now open for debate - and wfaulk's comment looks like a decent next step to settling that debate.