From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 16 13:44:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10178 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:44:06 -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 NAA10170 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:44:04 -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 NAA29338; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:43:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:43:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Brendan Kosowski cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Routing Table 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 Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Brendan Kosowski wrote: > > I did a "netstat -r" recently and noticed a new entry in my routing table > which wasn't there before ( the ethernet hardware address seems to have > all the bits set ). > > destination gateway flags > > [my network address] ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff UHLWb > > > Does this have anything to do with the fact that OLD BSD used the network > address as the BROADCAT ADDRESS ??? It's normal. Most likely some station came on as the broadcast to get a DHCP or BOOTP request. These sorts of things are transient and will disappear with time. 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