From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 23 9:57:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FBEA14D9E for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 09:57:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from localhost (jcw@localhost) by s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA95315; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 21:55:44 GMT (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: s8-37-26.student.washington.edu: jcw owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 21:55:44 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcw@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: arp moved? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: >On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Jason C. Wells wrote: > >> This was in the dmesg log. >> >> arp: 128.208.37.115 moved from 00:40:05:42:b7:18 to 00:00:c5:47:46:de on >> ed0 >> >> The IP in this error message has nothing to do with me. Can someone tell >> me what this means? >> >> I run natd. My internet host is 128.208.37.26. My LAN is on 192.168.1.*. >> The LAN interface is 100. My one and only box on the LAN is 1. > >Basically, it means that the address 128.208.37.115 moved from one >ethernet card to another one. Are you on a cable modem, by chance? This >happens alot on cable modem networks. Any network that uses DHCP over >ethernet, actually. I am not on a cable modem. My IP is static. Looking closer, I see that the mac addresses in the log don't belong to me. Is this a log message that tells me that something _out there_ changed? It seems that this really doesn't affect me. Thank You, | http://students.washington.edu/jcwells Jason Wells | "Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither | freedom nor security." - Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message