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I am having troubling pinging IP addresses on the local network after rebooting or clearing the ARP table. I am looking for guidance on fixing this.

I have a windows 10 PC which is has a 4 port Ethernet card. The ports are all set up with static IPV4 addresses: 10.0.0.1 ... 10.0.0.4 with a subnet mask 255.255.255.0.

Ethernet cables connect these ports to up to 4 pieces of hardware which have static IPs in the range 10.0.0.10 ... 10.0.0.255

After a reboot I get a DestinationUnreachable error when I ping some of the hardware unless I try a few times (between 0 and 3?). The number of DestinationUnreachable errors before success for each piece of hardware varies, but depends on which port the hardware is connected to.

After I have pinged a piece of hardware successfully once, always succeeds on subsequent attempts, and I can see it in the arp -a table. If I execute arp -d then again i have to ping everal times before I don't get DestinationUnreachable

Is there a better way to configure this? I want all the ports and hardware to be on the same subnet so that it works no matter which piece of hardware is plugged into which port.

Adam V. Steele
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actually you have four different subnets with the same ip range. Probably the network stack has to check all four subnets for the actual device. i would check if you can bridge all four ports together and assign only one ip to your machine.

-> Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Network Connections mark all four connections, rigth-click -> "Bridge Connections" -> configure the new bridge device.

uerg
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