What's ARP Got to Do with It?

Remco van Mook — 23 Jul 2026

Based in The Netherlands

9 min read

23 Jul 2026

It's only ARP. It works. So how much can it really matter? The answer lies beyond ARP itself, in the IPv4 layer cake that grew around it over four decades. The IPv4 internet is not going away in bounded time, and nobody should pretend otherwise.

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