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Date:      Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:52:37 -0500 (EST)
From:      bill <billt@ifelse.org>
To:        "Andy [TECC NOPS]" <andy@tecc.co.uk>
Cc:        User Duraid <latif2221@home.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: security problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.31.0103080950090.1573-100000@zaius.poa>
In-Reply-To: <NDBBKOKIGKLFGGPFHCGBEEGDCLAA.andy@tecc.co.uk>

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there is a sysctl option to stop displaying just those messages:

net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface=0

will stop them, at least in 4.2-STABLE... don't know about other versions.


On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Andy [TECC NOPS] wrote:

> I just had exactly the same problem about
> 10 mins ago. Basically you appear to have
> two nics, lo0 and xl0 and they are not
> setup correctly. I was messing with nic
> aliases and found I buggered one up.
> Look in /etc/rc.conf and /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> and check the setup of them.
>
> As for syslog's popping into your face, either
> use a different vtty (say press alt-F2) as syslog
> messages to console go to the first vtty. Or, if
> you want them in a file look at /etc/syslog.conf
> (do man syslog also). That's where the setup is
> for messages like this.
> > Mar  8 04:24:37 blue /kernel: arp: 192.168.1.1 is on lo0 but got reply
> > from 00:1
> > 0:b5:00:64:54 on xl0
> > Mar  8 05:39:30 blue /kernel: arp: 192.168.1.1 is on lo0 but got reply
> > from 00:a
> > 0:c9:1e:c0:19 on xl0
> > Mar  8 05:40:00 blue last message repeated 9 times
> > Mar  8 05:42:00 blue last message repeated 15 times
> > Mar  8 05:52:01 blue last message repeated 46 times
> > Mar  8 05:55:39 blue last message repeated 26 times
> >
> > and also how do i stop the messages from being pop in my face but
> > instead log them some where else?


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