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Hello mudman,

Wednesday, May 23, 2001, 6:24:55 PM, you wrote:


m> I'm somewhat of a greenhorn on how packets are handled in FreeBSD.
m> Apparently, some character has been throwing some bad packets at me.
m> Kernel message like:

m> arp: bad hardware address format (0x800)

Can you describe your environment? I am on cable and I got these messages
once or twice per day.


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