From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 12 9:22:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from madeline.boneyard.lawrence.ks.us (madeline.boneyard.lawrence.ks.us [24.124.26.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B95CC37B43F for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:22:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from boneyard (boneyard [24.124.26.25]) by madeline.boneyard.lawrence.ks.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA25697 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:22:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bsd-stable@boneyard.lawrence.ks.us) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:22:00 -0500 (CDT) From: To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: incomplete ARP entry for NIC alias address Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, I am running 4.1-Stable. The most recent is as of August 14th. I have noticed that when adding an alias to an interface, an equivalent arp entry is not included. The alias is still reachable from other systems, just not from the local box. It occurs on both the i386 (using rl, fxp and xl interfaces) and the alpha (dc and de interfaces) I have tried ifconfig with and without the broadcast and netmask. The only option, it would seem, is to statically add an ARP entry for the aliased address. I am assuming that this is not normal behavior. Please let me know if I can provide any more information. Regards, Stephen Stephen Spencer | | "Mutton yesterday, mutton today, and blimey, | if it don't look like mutton again tomarrer" | -Bert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message