Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:43:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Brendan Kosowski <brendan@bmkind.lnk.telstra.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Routing Table Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807161342591.21519-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980714113548.1183A-100000@bmkind.lnk.telstra.ne t>
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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
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