From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 1 23:27:54 2001 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 1 23:27:50 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts8.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 239C737B402 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 23:27:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from idem.sympatico.ca ([64.229.234.150]) by tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010102072749.PBAE18753.tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net@idem.sympatico.ca> for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 02:27:49 -0500 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010102022929.00a10460@pop6.sympatico.ca> X-Sender: b1gbfv75@pop6.sympatico.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 02:29:35 -0500 To: hackers@freebsd.org From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=E9lix-Antoine?= Paradis Subject: ARP question. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, When we do a "dmesg" on a 4.2-STABLE box, we get: arp: 200.42.126.18 moved from 00:e0:7d:7b:53:f0 to 00:c0:df:f4:ac:05 on ed0 and, in ifconfig, it says: ed0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 200.42.126.20 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 200.42.126.255 inet6 fe80::2e0:7dff:fe7b:548a%ed0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 00:e0:7d:7b:54:8a ed0 is connected to a switch. we want to know what the "arp: " message means. on the linux box, we have: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:DF:F4:AC:05 inet addr:200.42.126.18 Bcast:200.42.126.23 Mask:255.255.255.248 UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:12738748 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:556 TX packets:4014499 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:172394 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe800 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:7D:7B:53:F0 inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3634104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:4 TX packets:3842298 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:197818 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:12 Base address:0xec00 inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 Both eth0 and eth1 are connected to that same switch. Thank's. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message