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From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
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Subject: Re: Almost fixed (was Re: BRIDGE breaks ARP? (Julian's patch))
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


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