From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 21 16:20:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F67C16A4BF for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:20:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imhotep.yuckfou.org (cust.89.117.adsl.cistron.nl [195.64.89.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AD2843FBF for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:20:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nivo+freebsd-questions@yuckfou.org) Received: by imhotep.yuckfou.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 22A46AAC0; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 01:20:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 01:20:12 +0200 From: Nils Vogels To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <20030821232012.GD74520@imhotep.yuckfou.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-PGP-Key: Key 0xAD3A5AAD from pub. servers X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1585 93A2 9595 177B 5D5F 1271 3333 57FD AD3A 5AAD Subject: Re: IP Problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:20:17 -0000 On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 07:00:32PM -0400, Ben Dover (BD) wrote: BD> OK, this is difficult to explain and my problem is probably bigger than BD> what I have found but here goes. I have a dedicated 5.1 FreeBSD box and BD> when I did a dmesg I received a repeating message as follows: BD> arplookup 66.246.xx.1 failed: host is not on local network I've had the same message multiple times when my default route would be equal to the IP number of an interface of the box on a 4.8-REL box. For instance: Interface xl0 has IP address 192.168.2.2/24 configured on it locally Interface rl0 has IP address 10.0.5.1/24 configured on it locally The default route of the box is set to 192.168.2.2 This would cause a loop displaying the exact error message on the console, and the box would become dead slow. This for me was solved by simply typing: route delete default HTH & HAND -- Simple guidelines to happiness: Work like you don't need the money, love like your heart has never been broken and dance like no one can see you.