From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 6 16: 6:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (n2000039.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEB1614DBE for ; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 16:06:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id BAA46342 for ; Sat, 7 Aug 1999 01:07:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <37AB6A4D.2AAC926A@nisser.com> Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 01:05:49 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ARP message flood Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Since I switched to an aliassed IP on my outbound NIC I get: Aug 5 03:00:02 nisser /kernel: arp: 00:90:6d:e4:30:00 attempts to modify perman ent entry for 194.134.128.1 on ep1 Aug 5 03:00:33 nisser last message repeated 23 times Aug 5 03:02:34 nisser last message repeated 137 times Aug 5 03:12:35 nisser last message repeated 637 times Aug 5 03:22:34 nisser last message repeated 691 times Aug 5 03:32:35 nisser last message repeated 657 times ... which I would like to not get. Relevant details: gateway_enable="YES" network_interfaces="ep0 ep1 lo0" #network_interfaces="ep0 le0 lo0" ifconfig_ep0="inet 10.0.0.55 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_ep1="inet 212.187.0.39 netmask 255.255.248.0" ifconfig_ep1_alias0="inet 194.134.130.170 194.134.128.1 netmask 255.255.252.0" which results in: nisser:/home/www/Slak$ netstat -rn Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire default 212.187.0.1 UGSc 17 2644902 ep1 10/24 link#1 UC 0 0 ep0 10.0.0.2 0:80:1e:0:1:68 UHLW 5 1465344 ep0 1063 10.0.0.3 0:40:95:4:37:2a UHLW 1 54019 ep0 930 10.0.0.4 0:4f:49:0:8a:ba UHLW 0 115528 ep0 729 10.0.0.255 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff UHLWb 3 3826 ep0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 21107 lo0 194.134.128/22 link#2 UC 0 0 ep1 194.134.128.1 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff UHLWb 0 72246 ep1 194.134.130.102 0:0:e8:d5:d9:21 UHLW 0 60 ep1 1094 194.134.130.170 0:60:97:e4:98:db UHLW 0 28 lo0 212.187/21 link#2 UC 0 0 ep1 212.187.0.1 0:90:6d:e4:30:0 UHLW 16 0 ep1 1191 212.187.0.39 0:60:97:e4:98:db UHLW 0 36123 lo0 212.187.0.55 48:54:e8:2b:79:9d UHLW 1 94 ep1 258 it looks like the stack tries to set up two permanent addresses for the same NIC even though it should know better. nisser:/home/www/Slak$ uname -a FreeBSD nisser.com 3.1-STABLE FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE #6: Fri May 21 03:52:27 CEST 19 99 toor@n669.telekabel.euronet.nl:/usr/src/sys/compile/FORSETI i386 If anyone has some ideas about this please advise. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message