[mythtv-users] HDHR failing

[Jan Ceuleers]

On 15/11/2020 04:20, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> The log posted probably does not show the start of the Ethernet
> traffic, as the first packet you posted (packet 11) is an ARP request
> broadcast from the HDHR trying to find the MythTV box's IP address.
> That is unexpected - it suggests that the HDHR was talking to the
> MythTV box not long ago and lost the connection and is trying to
> re-establish it. 

Actually that looks like a "gratuitous ARP" [1]

Google suggests that HDHRs issuing gratuitous ARP requests is a known
behaviour.

[1]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Resolution_Protocol#ARP_announcements