From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 16 07:24:32 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA10610 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 May 1995 07:24:32 -0700 Received: from ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (ki1.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE [160.45.24.21]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA10599 for ; Tue, 16 May 1995 07:24:17 -0700 Received: by ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.1.28.1) from sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (130.133.3.140) with smtp id ; Tue, 16 May 95 16:22 MEST Received: by sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de; id AA16140; Tue, 16 May 1995 16:22:45 +0200 From: Thomas Graichen Message-Id: <9505161422.AA16140@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de> Subject: "arp info overwritten" problem To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 16:22:44 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1834 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk hello again a problem: here i often get the "arp info overwritten for 130.133.255.255 from ..." - aroud every 1/4 i get this and i think it's because FreeBSD keeps the broadcast adress in his arp cache -> arp -a looks like: graichen@julia:~> arp -a di_2_zedat.zedat.fu-berlin.de (130.133.1.31) at 8:0:25:20:2:c6 fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de (130.133.1.46) at 0:0:77:2:11:50 axp1.physik.fu-berlin.de (130.133.3.45) at 8:0:2b:3e:d8:94 axp3.physik.fu-berlin.de (130.133.3.48) at 8:0:2b:3c:58:ae omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (130.133.3.51) at 8:0:2b:33:8f:8d sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (130.133.3.140) at 8:0:2b:3b:dd:78 lucy.physik.fu-berlin.de (130.133.3.186) at 0:0:c0:a2:40:6a julia.physik.fu-berlin.de (130.133.3.235) at 0:0:c0:7c:79:a4 permanent leibniz.math.fu-berlin.de (130.133.4.10) at 8:0:20:c:29:d1 heiss.router.fu-berlin.de (130.133.97.5) at 0:0:c:15:e7:fd lion.chemie.fu-berlin.de (130.133.210.165) at 8:0:9:28:3:f BROADCAST.fu-berlin.de (130.133.255.255) at 8:0:14:15:16:78 graichen@julia:~> i think the last entry should not be there (BROADCAST.fu-berlin.de) is only an entry in the nameserver for the broadcast-adress - it's not a machine) - i think there seems to be something worng with the arp cache - if you need any more info - please mail me - the system is correctly configured and the network too - t _______________________________________________________||_____________________ __|| Perfection is reached, not when there is no __|| thomas graichen longer anything to add, but when there __|| freie universitaet berlin is no longer anything to take away __|| fachbereich physik __|| - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - __|| ___________________________||____email: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de____