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Date:      Fri, 19 May 2000 09:00:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Omachonu Ogali <oogali@intranova.net>
To:        John <papalia@udel.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.0-Stable Kernel Error?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005190858570.381-100000@hydrant.intranova.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000519085332.00acec50@mail.udel.edu>

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On Fri, 19 May 2000, John wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Since upgrading to 4.0-Stable, I've been getting a sporadic error message 
> in /var/log/messages that shows up as follows:
> 
> May 18 12:55:17 merlin /kernel: arp: unknown hardware address format (0x0800)	
> 
> It's showed up 3 times in the past 36 or so hours, but not at any point in 
> time that I can narrow it down to occurring near/after/during any specific 
> system event.
> 
> Any idea what would be causing the error and how to go about fixing it?

This is a network related message, have you added any other devices to
the LAN your NIC card is connected to? Survey all your networking
equipment to make sure they're functioning properly, I had a faulty 3C509
once that would put illegitimate ARP packets on the wire...

> Thanks in advance,
> John
> 
> 
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