From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 12 7:54:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.michaelchaney.com (ns2.michaelchaney.com [207.65.84.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDD2437B405; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 07:54:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from adsl-66-136-97-81.dsl.hrlntx.swbell.net (negwo.eastcore.net) [66.136.97.81] by mail.michaelchaney.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 163JPg-000PNb-00; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:54:21 -0600 Received: (from rick@localhost) by negwo.eastcore.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fACFsHA38902; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:54:17 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from roundeye@roundeye.net) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:54:17 -0600 From: Rick Bradley To: Conrad Sabatier Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unknown kernel error message Message-ID: <20011112095417.F25208@negwo.eastcore.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from conrads@home.com on Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 09:14:13AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Conrad Sabatier (conrads@home.com) [011112 09:16]: > A friend of mine is getting these lately, every time he boots his > 4.4-STABLE box (I just cvsupped him and built a new world and kernel last > night to see if it would help; didn't): > > Nov 11 22:36:10 unixpros /kernel: arp: unknown hardware address format > (0x0800) I had this problem once when I had a Mandrake Linux system on my network. IIRC either Mandrake 7.2 is sometimes doing something weird when it constructs ARP packets. I upgraded the Mandrake machine to FreeBSD and the problem went away. Rick -- Mostly useless pseudo-random number: 882 (77 F) http://xns.org/=rick@eastcore.net CE7E0CBE7AB9F5EAF1E34943E8EB2BA10615B6E3 keyserver.pgp.com/pks/lookup?op=get&exact=on&search=roundeye%40roundeye.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message