From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 14 02:58:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A255537B401 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 02:58:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (ns2.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6519443FAF for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 02:52:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 4.20 #5 (FreeBSD)) id 19R7hk-000Mvu-CD; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 12:52:12 +0300 Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 12:52:12 +0300 From: ODHIAMBO Washington To: Dan Nelson Message-ID: <20030614095212.GC87960@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: ODHIAMBO Washington , Dan Nelson , FBSD-Q References: <20030613152226.GA91843@ns2.wananchi.com> <20030613154057.GN53468@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030613154057.GN53468@dan.emsphone.com> X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message,where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Fortune: Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386 X-Best-Window-Manager: Blackbox X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.3i (2002-12-17) X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 12:48PM up 7 days, 2:15, 2 users, load averages: 1.66, 1.71, 1.28 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: arp messages: Why is this happening? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 09:58:14 -0000 * Dan Nelson [20030613 18:40]: wrote: > In the last episode (Jun 13), ODHIAMBO Washington said: > > > > My log files (and console) fill up with these messages. > > > > > arp: 62.8.64.172 moved from 00:c0:05:11:01:f1 to 00:c0:05:10:01:f1 on bge1 > > > arp: 62.8.64.201 moved from 00:c0:05:10:01:f1 to 00:c0:05:11:01:f1 on bge1 > > > arp: 62.8.64.201 moved from 00:c0:05:11:01:f1 to 00:c0:05:10:01:f1 on bge1 > > > arp: 62.8.64.145 moved from 00:c0:05:11:01:f1 to 00:c0:05:10:01:f1 on bge1 > > > arp: 62.8.64.212 moved from 00:c0:05:11:01:f1 to 00:c0:05:10:01:f1 on bge1 > > > arp: 62.8.64.188 moved from 00:c0:05:11:01:f1 to 00:c0:05:10:01:f1 on bge1 > > ... > > What are the machines at those two mac addresses? Are they maybe > clustered servers, and during failover, you see an arp line for each ip > that gets moved from one to the other Now that points me towards some clue ... those mac addresses are not even on the box where I am seeing these messages..... I can see the mac addresses by using ifconfig, yes?? So some machines, possibly routers, are doing this... Best regards, Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd. ___W_A_N_A_N_C_H_I__O_N_L_I_N_E__L_T_D___The People's Choice______ Wananchi Head Office |*| Tel: +254 2 313 985-9 1st Flr Loita, Loita St.|*| Fax: +254 2 313 922 10286-GPO, NAIROBI, KE |*| e-mail: ------------------------------------------------------------------ ++ "...with a colour temperature of 9300K using barco phosphors and connected to an AGP Matrox G200 via 5 individual RG179B/U coax cables with a contact resistance less than 0.1 mOhm..." -- David Jordan