From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 14 19: 7:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx2037703-a.kenner1.la.home.com (cx2037703-a.kenner1.la.home.com [24.39.27.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B80637B416; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 19:07:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx2037703-a.kenner1.la.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAF372C05641; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:07:02 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.1 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <86u1vxfayp.fsf@jamestown.21stcentury.net> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:07:02 -0600 (CST) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: James McNaughton Subject: Re: unknown kernel error message Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Rick Bradley Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14-Nov-2001 James McNaughton wrote: >> > >> > Nov 11 22:36:10 unixpros /kernel: arp: unknown hardware address format >> > (0x0800) >> > > I get this same message often since I got a cable modem. There seems > to be no pattern as to when it occurs. I infer from the wording that > someone on the local ethernet segment is advertising a weird > non-ethernet MAC address. > > I have found no explanation so far and stopped looking for one. There > appears to be no degredation to my system performance. > > Is this coming from the ISP's network or is it an internal network? As far as I know, he's only connected through his NIC to a cable modem. -- Conrad Sabatier Bumper sticker: "All the parts falling off this car are of the very finest British manufacture" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message