From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 10 16: 4:42 2003 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 043AF37B405 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:04:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 851DA43F5F for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:04:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9869D5196D; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:34:35 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:34:35 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Bill Moran Cc: bsdaemon@mail.com, ukla@attbi.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bazillion kernel messages? Message-ID: <20030111000435.GA87427@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030110010009.88318.qmail@mail.com> <3E1EDA8E.4010403@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E1EDA8E.4010403@potentialtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Friday, 10 January 2003 at 9:37:02 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > bsdaemon@mail.com wrote: >> From: Steve Warwick >> >>> I have a bazillion of these kernel messages showing up in my logs... >>> >>> Jan 9 13:53:30 la last message repeated 7 times >>> Jan 9 13:59:21 la /kernel: arp: 00:05:32:0e:64:12 attempts to modify >>> permanententry for 12.158.234.65 on rl0 >>> >>> I know rl0 is my ethernet but I don't host the .65 address. I have >>> not seen these before - does anyone know what these messages mean? >> >> No help here, but I get this (alot) and I've seen it discussed, but no >> resolution (if one is needed): >> ...../kernel: arp: [address] has moved to [different] address on [cable >> modem mac address] >> >> I'd be interested in any suggestions, as well. > > These are two different issues. The "[address] has moved to > [different] ..." message is simply caused by DHCP giving different > addys to different computer as they turn on and off on the cable > network. It's not really anything to be concerned with. That's not the only possibility. It could be two machines both insisting that the address is theirs. That *is* an issue to be concerned with. > I'm not sure what Steve's problem is, but it sounds like a > something's wrong. If I were you, I'd do a little research to find > out what computer has 00:05:32:0e:64:12 and see what software is > running on it. That may get you pointed toward the cause/solution > of the problem. You could also try connecting to it with ssh or rlogin or some such. That should help you identify which machine it is more easily. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message