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Date:      Wed, 24 Oct 2001 10:22:44 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        mw@lanfear.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Weird syslog message
Message-ID:  <20011024102244.E552@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011023235851.9F35537B403@hub.freebsd.org>; from mw@lanfear.com on Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:58:51PM -0700
References:  <20011023235851.9F35537B403@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:58:51PM -0700, mw@lanfear.com wrote:
> I got the following message in my syslog the other day.
> 
> Oct 20 12:33:41 akira /kernel: arp: 216.168.61.163 moved from
> 00:05:02:51:2e:26 to 00:50:e4:c0:70:1b on fxp0

It says that the MAC address for 216.168.61.163 has changed. This
can be a security issue, because some evil person has plugged in
his computer and is now looking around on your network. Or it is
somebody who just got a new computer (or network card) and is using
his computer for the first time.

Edwin

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