ARP Cache??

[EmTSea19]

I was on the net this morning, but now I can't get on. When I click "repair", I get "The Following steps of the repair operation failed, flushing the ARP Cache." What the heck is an ARP Cache? The computer is a Shuttle, and it has a Linksys Card which is currently hard wired to the router. I can't even get 192.168.1.1 when I try, it says the search page is not working. So, what now, how do I connect to the net, and what caused this? Thank You.

Edit to add: Alright, after trying everything, I finally defragged and that did the trick. I still have no idea what happened, but at least I can get on the net.

 

[seadave77]

ARP Cache is a history of the IP addresses you have recently been to in order to speed up the process instead of going through DNS. I'm glad your problem has been resolved but I don't know what defragging could do to help. I think your connection had a temporary problem and by the time you finished defragging the problem on your line had been resolved. Just a thought though.

Clint

 

[XWRed1]

Thats not an arp cache, thats more like a dns cache.

The arp cache is the cache of ip addresses resolved to mac addresses.

 

[turd]

here i whipped up a little bat file to flush at the arpcache for you.

just copy out everything starting at @echo off to @Exit and paste it in to notepad name that notefile cleararp.bat
save it and click on it


@ECHO OFF
%systemroot%\system32\netsh interface ip delete arpcache
%systemroot%\system32\arp -g -a >arpcach.txt
arpcach.txt
cls
@Exit

 

[EmTSea19]

Thanks everyone, but I am not going to mess with it now it is fixed. I don't know if it was the defragging or pure coincidence and it corrected itself, but it sure seemed like the defragging. I am just going to leave it alone now, *lol*. Thanks.