From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 17 15:33:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from priv-edtnes11-hme0.telusplanet.net (fepout3.telus.net [199.185.220.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1A0037B422 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:33:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tmchow@sfu.ca) Received: from CRX.sfu.ca ([209.53.63.29]) by priv-edtnes11-hme0.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.13 201-229-121-113) with ESMTP id <20010417223354.XCQI10980.priv-edtnes11-hme0.telusplanet.net@CRX.sfu.ca>; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:33:54 -0600 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20010417153906.03054b50@mail.geektank.org> X-Sender: tmchow@popserver.sfu.ca (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:39:33 -0700 To: Noah Dunker From: Trevin Chow Subject: RE: ARP message filling my logs Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How can I ignore the messages? At 05:27 PM 4/17/2001 -0500, Noah Dunker wrote: >DHCP Addresses rotating between computers, or if you're using a product like >MetaIP that gives each USER an IP Address based on Username (instead of by >MAC address), this could easily be the cause. > >Noah Dunker >Systems Analyst/Technician >Johnson County Community College > >-----Original Message----- >From: Trevin Chow [mailto:tmchow@sfu.ca] >Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 5:20 PM >To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: ARP message filling my logs > > >Hi, > >I'm getting these messages from my ISP's 2 nameservers. The messages are >constantly flooding >my console terminal and I'd like the insanity to stop :) > >/kernel: arp: 209.53.0.1 moved from 40:00:d1:35:3c:fe to 00:00:0c:35:17:f0 >on fxp0 >/kernel: arp: 209.53.0.17 moved from 40:00:d1:35:3c:fe to 00:00:0c:35:17:f0 >on fxp0 >/kernel: arp: 209.53.0.17 moved from 00:00:0c:35:17:f0 to 40:00:d1:35:3c:fe >on fxp0 > >Why the heck would the MAC address keep changing? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message