From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 8 6:49:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from what.ifelse.org (what.ifelse.org [208.171.40.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B95F537B719 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 06:49:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billt@ifelse.org) Received: from 2416419hfc44.tampabay.rr.com (2416419hfc44.tampabay.rr.com [24.164.19.44]) by what.ifelse.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id JAA15299; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:32:05 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:52:37 -0500 (EST) From: bill X-X-Sender: To: "Andy [TECC NOPS]" Cc: User Duraid , Subject: RE: security 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 there is a sysctl option to stop displaying just those messages: net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface=0 will stop them, at least in 4.2-STABLE... don't know about other versions. On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Andy [TECC NOPS] wrote: > I just had exactly the same problem about > 10 mins ago. Basically you appear to have > two nics, lo0 and xl0 and they are not > setup correctly. I was messing with nic > aliases and found I buggered one up. > Look in /etc/rc.conf and /etc/defaults/rc.conf > and check the setup of them. > > As for syslog's popping into your face, either > use a different vtty (say press alt-F2) as syslog > messages to console go to the first vtty. Or, if > you want them in a file look at /etc/syslog.conf > (do man syslog also). That's where the setup is > for messages like this. > > Mar 8 04:24:37 blue /kernel: arp: 192.168.1.1 is on lo0 but got reply > > from 00:1 > > 0:b5:00:64:54 on xl0 > > Mar 8 05:39:30 blue /kernel: arp: 192.168.1.1 is on lo0 but got reply > > from 00:a > > 0:c9:1e:c0:19 on xl0 > > Mar 8 05:40:00 blue last message repeated 9 times > > Mar 8 05:42:00 blue last message repeated 15 times > > Mar 8 05:52:01 blue last message repeated 46 times > > Mar 8 05:55:39 blue last message repeated 26 times > > > > and also how do i stop the messages from being pop in my face but > > instead log them some where else? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message