From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 24 22:15:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from indigo.dreamfire.net (indigo.dreamfire.net [207.113.154.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89FDD37B424 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:15:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from valiant.dreamfire.net (valiant.dreamfire.net [24.11.227.21]) by indigo.dreamfire.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E56519452; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:15:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by valiant.dreamfire.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 97030E8E33; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:15:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:15:38 -0700 From: Sean-Paul Rees To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: arp: 00:0a:27:b1:2a:10 is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! Message-ID: <20000924221538.A20065@seanrees.com> References: <20000924102153.A13708@seanrees.com> <20000924220934.F59015@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000924220934.F59015@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>; from cjclark@reflexnet.net on Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 10:09:34PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 10:09:34PM -0700, Crist J . Clark wrote: > I'd worry about why the FreeBSD machine reporting these messages seems > to believe it owns 0.0.0.0. That is not a valid host IP and should > never be used as a network either. The box has 2 ethernet interfaces. One of them (to the internet) is configured via DHCP, and the other interface serves DHCP. It is my belief that my interfaces are not listening on 0.0.0.0 - and when I ping it, I get a response from my immediate first hop out toward the internet. (this box does NAT) -- Cheers, Sean Sean-Paul Rees (sean@seanrees.com) Web: http://www.seanrees.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message