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I took a different meaning on this question so I went to find the answer. Not sure I do know where arp stores the data exactly. Normally it is called arp cache but that seems to include both static and dynamic. Since arp is so old, I'd guess some whacky location for the cache is inside the program and not an externally searchable location. But that is just my guess.
Thanks michaelk. I couldn't find that. It lead me to this statement so it is as I suspected, a built in process.
"This holds an ASCII readable dump of the kernel ARP table used for address resolutions. It will show both dynamically learned and preprogrammed ARP entries. The format is: "
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