Hostnames not showing in ARP Table
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I've assigned static IP addresses to most of the things on my home network. How do I get the hostnames to display in the ARP table? I've done a search here and come up short. All the devices that are dynamically assigned are showing.
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Arp tables don't show host names. They only show IP to MAC address mappings.
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Then why is there a column for them? And why does it show them for the automatically assigned IP addresses?
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That's an arp table maintained withing pfsense. It's not the arp cache as used by freeBSD. Go to a command prompt and enter the command "arp -a", which will show the contents of the arp cache. If a host name is there, it's because something did a host lookup on the IP address. An arp cache is used when trying to reach an IP address on the local net, by providing the MAC address for it. A host name has nothing to do with that function.
