From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 14 02:59:16 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 D99B237B401 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 02:59:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (ns2.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8407343F93 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 02:58:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 4.20 #5 (FreeBSD)) id 19R7nr-000BZV-Vy; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 12:58:31 +0300 Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 12:58:31 +0300 From: ODHIAMBO Washington To: Bill Moran Message-ID: <20030614095831.GA33616@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: ODHIAMBO Washington , Bill Moran , FBSD-Q References: <20030613152226.GA91843@ns2.wananchi.com> <3EE9EF8D.4070405@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EE9EF8D.4070405@potentialtech.com> X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message,where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Fortune: In America, any boy may become president and I suppose that's just one of the risks he takes. -- Adlai Stevenson 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: 12:54PM up 7 days, 2:21, 2 users, load averages: 1.31, 1.58, 1.36 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 09:59:17 -0000 * Bill Moran [20030613 18:36]: wrote: > ODHIAMBO Washington wrote: > >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 > > Could be that you're on a DHCP network and addresses are moving around a > lot. An ISP env, without a DHCP server, but with a NAS assigning IPs to dialup clients. > I'm on Adelphia cable internet, and I see these messages off and on. > Especially after network problems, there'll be a long list of them. ..a long list of them is also what I see here. I just shortened what I sent. > Occassionally, I'll see one MAC address that is generating a lot of > these messages ... I assume it's some broken Windows machine that > can't figure out what IP to use. > > There is a sysctl that will turn off reporting of this: > net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_movements > Set it to 0 to stop the logging. Thanks. I was looking for something like this, but is this really available in 4.8-STABLE ???? 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: ------------------------------------------------------------------ ++ When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free' Linus Torvalds