diff --git a/advanced/Scripts/piholeARPTable.sh b/advanced/Scripts/piholeARPTable.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index c62acdbc..00000000
--- a/advanced/Scripts/piholeARPTable.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,83 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
-# (c) 2019 Pi-hole, LLC (https://pi-hole.net)
-# Network-wide ad blocking via your own hardware.
-#
-# ARP table interaction
-#
-# This file is copyright under the latest version of the EUPL.
-# Please see LICENSE file for your rights under this license.
-
-coltable="/opt/pihole/COL_TABLE"
-if [[ -f ${coltable} ]]; then
-# shellcheck source="./advanced/Scripts/COL_TABLE"
-    source ${coltable}
-fi
-
-readonly PI_HOLE_SCRIPT_DIR="/opt/pihole"
-utilsfile="${PI_HOLE_SCRIPT_DIR}/utils.sh"
-# shellcheck source=./advanced/Scripts/utils.sh
-source "${utilsfile}"
-
-# Determine database location
-DBFILE=$(getFTLConfigValue "files.database")
-if [ -z "$DBFILE" ]; then
-    DBFILE="/etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.db"
-fi
-
-flushARP(){
-    local output
-    if [[ "${args[1]}" != "quiet" ]]; then
-        echo -ne "  ${INFO} Flushing network table ..."
-    fi
-
-    # Stop FTL to prevent database access
-    if ! output=$(service pihole-FTL stop 2>&1); then
-        echo -e "${OVER}  ${CROSS} Failed to stop FTL"
-        echo "  Output: ${output}"
-        return 1
-    fi
-
-    # Truncate network_addresses table in pihole-FTL.db
-    # This needs to be done before we can truncate the network table due to
-    # foreign key constraints
-    if ! output=$(pihole-FTL sqlite3 -ni "${DBFILE}" "DELETE FROM network_addresses" 2>&1); then
-        echo -e "${OVER}  ${CROSS} Failed to truncate network_addresses table"
-        echo "  Database location: ${DBFILE}"
-        echo "  Output: ${output}"
-        return 1
-    fi
-
-    # Truncate network table in pihole-FTL.db
-    if ! output=$(pihole-FTL sqlite3 -ni "${DBFILE}" "DELETE FROM network" 2>&1); then
-        echo -e "${OVER}  ${CROSS} Failed to truncate network table"
-        echo "  Database location: ${DBFILE}"
-        echo "  Output: ${output}"
-        return 1
-    fi
-
-    # Flush ARP cache of the host
-    if ! output=$(ip -s -s neigh flush all 2>&1); then
-        echo -e "${OVER}  ${CROSS} Failed to flush ARP cache"
-        echo "  Output: ${output}"
-        return 1
-    fi
-
-    # Start FTL again
-    if ! output=$(service pihole-FTL restart 2>&1); then
-        echo -e "${OVER}  ${CROSS} Failed to restart FTL"
-        echo "  Output: ${output}"
-        return 1
-    fi
-
-    if [[ "${args[1]}" != "quiet" ]]; then
-        echo -e "${OVER}  ${TICK} Flushed network table"
-    fi
-}
-
-args=("$@")
-
-case "${args[0]}" in
-    "arpflush"            ) flushARP;;
-esac
diff --git a/advanced/Scripts/piholeNetworkFlush.sh b/advanced/Scripts/piholeNetworkFlush.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..a8721476
--- /dev/null
+++ b/advanced/Scripts/piholeNetworkFlush.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
+# (c) 2019 Pi-hole, LLC (https://pi-hole.net)
+# Network-wide ad blocking via your own hardware.
+#
+# Network table flush
+#
+# This file is copyright under the latest version of the EUPL.
+# Please see LICENSE file for your rights under this license.
+
+coltable="/opt/pihole/COL_TABLE"
+if [[ -f ${coltable} ]]; then
+# shellcheck source="./advanced/Scripts/COL_TABLE"
+    source ${coltable}
+fi
+
+readonly PI_HOLE_SCRIPT_DIR="/opt/pihole"
+utilsfile="${PI_HOLE_SCRIPT_DIR}/utils.sh"
+# shellcheck source=./advanced/Scripts/utils.sh
+source "${utilsfile}"
+
+# Source api functions
+# shellcheck source="./advanced/Scripts/api.sh"
+. "${PI_HOLE_SCRIPT_DIR}/api.sh"
+
+flushNetwork(){
+    local output
+
+    echo -ne "  ${INFO} Flushing network table ..."
+
+    local data status error
+    # Authenticate with FTL
+    LoginAPI
+
+    # send query again
+    data=$(PostFTLData "action/flush/network" "" "status")
+
+    # Separate the status from the data
+    status=$(printf %s "${data#"${data%???}"}")
+    data=$(printf %s "${data%???}")
+
+    # If there is an .error object in the returned data, display it
+    local error
+    error=$(jq --compact-output <<< "${data}" '.error')
+    if [[ $error != "null" && $error != "" ]]; then
+        echo -e "${OVER}  ${CROSS} Failed to flush the network table:"
+        echo -e "      $(jq <<< "${data}" '.error')"
+        LogoutAPI
+        exit 1
+    elif [[ "${status}" == "200" ]]; then
+        echo -e "${OVER}  ${TICK} Flushed network table"
+    fi
+
+    # Delete session
+    LogoutAPI
+}
+
+flushArp(){
+    # Flush ARP cache of the host
+    if ! output=$(ip -s -s neigh flush all 2>&1); then
+        echo -e "${OVER}  ${CROSS} Failed to flush ARP cache"
+        echo "  Output: ${output}"
+        return 1
+    fi
+}
+
+# Process all options (if present)
+while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; do
+    case "$1" in
+    "--arp" ) doARP=true ;;
+    esac
+    shift
+done
+
+flushNetwork
+
+if [[ "${doARP}" == true ]]; then
+    echo -ne "  ${INFO} Flushing ARP cache"
+    if flushArp; then
+        echo -e "${OVER}  ${TICK} Flushed ARP cache"
+    fi
+fi
+
diff --git a/advanced/bash-completion/pihole b/advanced/bash-completion/pihole
index cf99ab73..e0f9017b 100644
--- a/advanced/bash-completion/pihole
+++ b/advanced/bash-completion/pihole
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 _pihole() {
-    local cur prev opts opts_checkout opts_debug opts_logging opts_query opts_update opts_version
+    local cur prev opts opts_lists opts_checkout opts_debug opts_logging opts_query opts_update opts_networkflush
     COMPREPLY=()
     cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"
     prev="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1]}"
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ _pihole() {
 
     case "${prev}" in
         "pihole")
-            opts="allow allow-regex allow-wild deny checkout debug disable enable flush help logging query repair regex reloaddns reloadlists status tail uninstall updateGravity updatePihole version wildcard arpflush api"
+            opts="allow allow-regex allow-wild deny checkout debug disable enable flush help logging query repair regex reloaddns reloadlists status tail uninstall updateGravity updatePihole version wildcard networkflush api"
             COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "${opts}" -- ${cur}) )
         ;;
         "allow"|"deny"|"wildcard"|"regex"|"allow-regex"|"allow-wild")
@@ -34,9 +34,13 @@ _pihole() {
             opts_update="--check-only"
             COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "${opts_update}" -- ${cur}) )
         ;;
-        "core"|"admin"|"ftl")
+        "networkflush")
+            opts_networkflush="--arp"
+            COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "${opts_networkflush}" -- ${cur}) )
+        ;;
+        "core"|"web"|"ftl")
             if [[ "$prev2" == "checkout" ]]; then
-                opts_checkout="master dev"
+                opts_checkout="master development"
                 COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "${opts_checkout}" -- ${cur}) )
             else
                 return 1
diff --git a/manpages/pihole.8 b/manpages/pihole.8
index 8390ffeb..7843f9ce 100644
--- a/manpages/pihole.8
+++ b/manpages/pihole.8
@@ -317,9 +317,10 @@ Switching Pi-hole subsystem branches
     Switch to core development branch
 .br
 
-\fBpihole arpflush\fR
+\fBpihole networkflush\fR
 .br
-    Flush information stored in Pi-hole's network tables
+    Flush information stored in Pi-hole's network table
+    Add '--arp' to additionally flush the ARP table
 .br
 
 \fBpihole api stats/summary\fR
diff --git a/pihole b/pihole
index 61aeca84..d55892f8 100755
--- a/pihole
+++ b/pihole
@@ -96,8 +96,18 @@ flushFunc() {
   exit 0
 }
 
+# Deprecated function, should be removed in the future
+# use networkFlush instead
 arpFunc() {
-  "${PI_HOLE_SCRIPT_DIR}"/piholeARPTable.sh "$@"
+  shift
+  echo -e "  ${INFO} The 'arpflush' command is deprecated, use 'networkflush' instead"
+  "${PI_HOLE_SCRIPT_DIR}"/piholeNetworkFlush.sh "$@"
+  exit 0
+}
+
+networkFlush() {
+  shift
+  "${PI_HOLE_SCRIPT_DIR}"/piholeNetworkFlush.sh "$@"
   exit 0
 }
 
@@ -522,7 +532,8 @@ Options:
   reloadlists         Update the lists WITHOUT flushing the cache or restarting the DNS server
   checkout            Switch Pi-hole subsystems to a different GitHub branch
                         Add '-h' for more info on checkout usage
-  arpflush            Flush information stored in Pi-hole's network tables";
+  networkflush        Flush information stored in Pi-hole's network tables
+                        Add '--arp' to additionally flush the ARP table ";
   exit 0
 }
 
@@ -561,7 +572,8 @@ case "${1}" in
   "setpassword"                   ) ;;
   "checkout"                      ) ;;
   "updatechecker"                 ) ;;
-  "arpflush"                      ) ;;
+  "arpflush"                      ) ;; # Deprecated, use networkflush instead
+  "networkflush"                  ) ;;
   "-t" | "tail"                   ) ;;
   "api"                           ) need_root=0;;
   *                               ) helpFunc;;
@@ -603,7 +615,8 @@ case "${1}" in
   "setpassword"                   ) SetWebPassword "$@";;
   "checkout"                      ) piholeCheckoutFunc "$@";;
   "updatechecker"                 ) shift; updateCheckFunc "$@";;
-  "arpflush"                      ) arpFunc "$@";;
+  "arpflush"                      ) arpFunc "$@";; # Deprecated, use networkflush instead
+  "networkflush"                  ) networkFlush "$@";;
   "-t" | "tail"                   ) tailFunc "$2";;
   "api"                           ) shift; apiFunc "$@";;
   *                               ) helpFunc;;