From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 1 10:36:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.toronto.istar.net (mail1.toronto.istar.net [209.89.75.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 086B537B401 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 10:36:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from d141-119-162.home.cgocable.net ([24.141.119.162] helo=x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com) by mail1.toronto.istar.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 15zMhC-0006gH-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 13:36:06 -0500 Received: from localhost (genisis@localhost) by x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fA1IgII84223 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 13:42:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from genisis@istar.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com: genisis owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 13:42:17 -0500 (EST) From: Dru X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Re: arp kernel message - unknown hardware address format? In-Reply-To: <20011101112752.A96313@keyslapper.org> Message-ID: <20011101131953.E84072-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > Hey all. Quick question about a kernel message I'm seeing on a fairly > regular basis. > > Oct 29 18:17:05 acadia /kernel: arp: unknown hardware address format (0x0800) > Oct 31 08:50:04 acadia /kernel: arp: unknown hardware address format (0x0800) > Oct 31 12:05:28 acadia /kernel: arp: unknown hardware address format (0x0800) > Nov 1 08:55:50 acadia /kernel: arp: unknown hardware address format (0x0800) > > I don't know just what it means. > > The only things I can think of would be a bad nic (bad, since it's > onboard - but under warranty) or a little trick I play to get my DHCP > lease from my ISP. For that I use the /etc/start_if.xl0 with an > ifconfig xl0 ether 00:aa:11:22:33:44 kind of command to set my MAC > address. > > Of course, I'm no guru (FreeBSD or network) so I thought someone here > might know. Hi Louis, Looks like that NIC received an Ethernet_II frame that didn't contain an IP packet (which is type 0x0800). As to the why, do a search of the mailing lists for "0x0800". If you want to learn to become a frame guru or just want to know the Ethernet_II type codes, they can be found here: http://collusion.org/Article.cfm?ID=205 Happy reading, Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message