Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 02:12:09 -0800 (PST) From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> To: richw@webcom.com (Rich Wales) Cc: rizzo@aciri.org, julian@elischer.org, patrick@netzuno.com, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Almost fixed (was Re: BRIDGE breaks ARP? (Julian's patch)) Message-ID: <200102061012.f16AC9X37187@iguana.aciri.org> In-Reply-To: <20010206044513.83942.richw@wyattearp.stanford.edu> from Rich Wales at "Feb 5, 2001 9:28:58 pm"
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> I just noticed something else weird. > > I did "arp -a" on my bridge, and one of the entries was for the bridge > itself. > > In other words, the bridge had an ARP entry telling it its own hardware > address (on its external, "xl0" interface, in case it matters). > The superfluous ARP entry was marked as permanent, FWIW. it is not related to bridging -- i have seen this over time on many FreeBSD systems even without bridging. I do not know how the entry gets installed or deleted. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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