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Subject: Re: Stop this from clogging DMESG
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On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, W. J. Williams wrote:

> arp: 192.168.0.2 is on lo0 but got reply from 00:d0:b7:b7:66:eb on fxp1
>
> Hi, how do I stop this line from appearing 50,000,000 times per day in my
> DMESG output.  I am sure it has something to do with the two nics I am
> running on this box.

there is a sysctl to stop it:
net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface: 1
if you set it to 0 it shouldn't print it anymore.