From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 16 22:58:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA22229 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:58:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA22224 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:58:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA13121; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:57:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:57:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: CyberPsychotic cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: arp problem 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 Sat, 15 Aug 1998, CyberPsychotic wrote: > weird thing has happened here after I played with ethernet wires of my > BSD box abit. (just took them, disconnected, atttached to other network > etc). While the rest of machines here were ok, (linux box) BSD machine > eluminated possible arp problem: it started dumping message " arplookup > for X.X.X.X fialed: host is not in LAN". while the other machines where > fine. Could connect to each other with no problem and only X.X.X.X machine > couldn't connect to my bsd box. You probably confused the heck out of the network code by moving the networks around without reifconfiging. Simply `ifconfig xx0 down; ifconfig xx0 up' should clear it up. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message