From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 18 08:03:23 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7FD516A4CE for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:03:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cs1.cs.huji.ac.il (cs1.cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7419E43D31 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:03:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32]) by cs1.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 1DCCS1-0000LR-Ms; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:03:21 +0200 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.0 06/18/2004 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Julian Elischer In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 17 Mar 2005 23:40:27 -0800 . Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:03:21 +0200 From: Danny Braniss Message-ID: cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: too many Gratuitous ARPs X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:03:23 -0000 > Danny Braniss wrote: > >>Depends on what the arps are for. > >> > >>On my network router (which is running 5.3), I noticed a lot of ARP messages > >>that were not as a result of any configuration errors and was able to put a stop > >>to it by using this control variable in sysctl: > >> > >>net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface=0 > > > is it an IPMI motherboard? yes > is IPMI enabled? yes > does it have the right address? yes as i mentioned in another message, it was indeed the IPMI, and it's a configurable item, so now it's set at 60 sec., and all is much quieter now. The reason that the IPMI is sending out these arps, is because the big shots that designed the IPMI did not include ARP req. handling. and the world keeps spinning ... danny