From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 19 8:31:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62EBC11893 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 08:31:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA09804; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:33:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199902191633.LAA09804@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Using Multiple Network Cards In-Reply-To: <008e01be5c14$217e9e00$827788d1@melvin.pitllc.com> from Melvin Brown at "Feb 19, 99 08:28:33 am" To: melvin@mailmall.net Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:33:21 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [You are using Outlook, a broken mailer. Turn off 'quoted/printable' or find the enter-key. Your first paragraph of text all appears on one line.] Melvin Brown wrote, > I am using FreeBSD 3.0 with multiple network cards in my system. They are on different IRQ and are PCI. I notice that I am always getting this error message: We need to know more about your setup. How about relevent dmesg output and rc.conf for starters? But I can tell you what this seems to be saying: [cut down to just unique lines] > arp: 209.12.230.1 is on fxp1 but got reply from 00:10:7b:87:ac:e2 on fxp2 > arp: 209.12.230.1 is on fxp1 but got reply from 00:10:7b:87:ac:e2 on fxp0 > arp: 209.194.168.1 is on fxp0 but got reply from 00:10:7b:87:ac:e2 on fxp2 > arp: 209.194.168.1 is on fxp0 but got reply from 00:10:7b:87:ac:e2 on fxp1 > arp: 209.136.141.1 is on fxp2 but got reply from 00:10:7b:87:ac:e2 on fxp0 > arp: 209.136.141.1 is on fxp2 but got reply from 00:10:7b:87:ac:e2 on fxp1 Notice the MAC address is the same. _All_ of this is one card talking to itself, and it looks very confused. > Is there a problem with FreeBSD running multiple network cards? People do it all of the time. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message