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What could make a host to be sending arp asking for the mac address of almost al the hosts in the network

I am analyzing this packet i captured in my network, there is something i am seeing that seems wierd to me.

the first is that a particular host keep sending arp broadcast requesting mac addresses of all the systems in the networking in an assending order i.e. the ip addresses are arranged from the least to the highest.

Secondly, a that same host after a while started sending SYN packages to most of the hosts in the network and each time it does so the destination hosts response with a RST, ACK package.

Can someone explain to me what could be going on?