From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 20 20:25:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sundance.cse.ucsc.edu (sundance.cse.ucsc.edu [128.114.48.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A3FE037B71B for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 20:25:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from josh@cse.ucsc.edu) Received: (from josh@localhost) by sundance.cse.ucsc.edu (8.6.10/8.6.12) id UAA07185; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 20:25:50 -0800 Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 20:25:50 -0800 From: Josh Homan Message-Id: <200103210425.UAA07185@sundance.cse.ucsc.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: suppress arp kernel message? Cc: josh@cse.ucsc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello FreeBSD gurus, I've got a 4.2-STABLE box on a network that has a device that creates bad packets every so often. When it creates the bad packets, I get the following message: arp: unknown hardware address format (0x0004) The real solution is to replace the malfunctioning device, and I appreciate that FreeBSD is informing me of the problem, but unfortunately I can't replace the problematic box for another 6 months. In the interim, I'd like to be able to supress generation of this message on my sysconsole. If it goes to syslogd, I'm okay with that, just so long as I don't get bombarded with the messages while I'm in single user or rooting around. I'm guessing it's going to require commenting out a couple lines of code and recompiling the kernel, but I wouldn't know where to start. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Please cc: me on the reply or send direct, as I'm not subscribed to -questions. Regards, Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message