From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 19 6: 0:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hydrant.intranova.net (hydrant.intranova.net [209.201.95.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF2CD37B588 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 06:00:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oogali@intranova.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hydrant.intranova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB1D3E10BC; Fri, 19 May 2000 09:00:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 09:00:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Omachonu Ogali To: John Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0-Stable Kernel Error? In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000519085332.00acec50@mail.udel.edu> 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 (Posting a question across more than one list is discouraged.) 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Omachonu Ogali oogali@intranova.net | | Intranova Networking Group http://tribune.intranova.net | | PGP Key ID: 0xBFE60839 | | PGP Fingerprint: C8 51 14 FD 2A 87 53 D1 E3 AA 12 12 01 93 BD 34 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message