From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 7 19:49:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA14825 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 19:49:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA14807 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 19:49:07 -0800 (PST) From: perry@zso.dec.com Received: from mail12.digital.com (mail12.digital.com [192.208.46.20]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id RAA02011 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 17:01:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from rust.zso.dec.com by mail12.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.5/1.0/WV) id TAA31274; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 19:51:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from yakko.zso.dec.com by rust.zso.dec.com (5.65/DECwest-CLUSTRIX-mwd-12Dec94) id AA17301; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 16:51:22 -0800 Received: from localhost by yakko.zso.dec.com (5.65v3.2/1.1.10.5/27Nov96-0917PM) id AA26309; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 16:53:14 -0800 Message-Id: <9703080053.AA26309@yakko.zso.dec.com> To: Doug White Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: arplookup failure? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Mar 97 14:48:16 PST." Date: Fri, 07 Mar 97 16:53:14 -0800 X-Mts: smtp Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Regarding Re: arplookup failure?; Doug White adds: > Your computer seems to be confused at to what network it's connected > to. Make sure the ifconfig_* lines in /etc/sysconfig have the > proper IP address defined. I found the problem. What was going on is that the machines in question have static routes to my network. They sent an arp request directly to my machine asking who it was, since to my routing tables the machine sending the request was on not on a direct route, I got that message in the syslog. When I set up static routes to those subnets, the messages went away. I have a 10M tcpdump which I took to isolate a few arp and icmp packets. :-) Thanks. -Reggie