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Date:      11 Jan 2003 15:29:10 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: adding some new IPs from a different subnet
Message-ID:  <44ptr3a0rt.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <C251CBAE-2590-11D7-8585-003065715DA8@pursued-with.net>
References:  <C251CBAE-2590-11D7-8585-003065715DA8@pursued-with.net>

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Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net> writes:

> On Saturday, Jan 11, 2003, at 08:28 US/Pacific, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> >> I think this is it:
> >>
> >> net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface
> >>
> >> Check whether yours is off or on and change it the other way.
> >
> > It would be better to fix the actual problem than to just make the
> > error message go away.  In this case, specifying a correct subnet mask
> > on the alias configuration should solve the problem.  [I think.]
> 
> I saw the note about the incorrect mask on the second 10. address; and
> agree that it needs fixing, but I don't think that was the source of
> the log messages.  I ran into the same thing when I had different NICS
> on different IP subnets on the same physical network some time ago -
> that's how I remembered the setting.  That's why there's a sysctl for
> it - depending on your configuration, it isn't actually an error.

The incorrect netmask would be enough to cause the message.  

And I happen to think that the message *always* indicates an error.
In many cases, it indicates an ISP error that you (downstream) can't
do anything about, but it's always an error.  [My logic is:  within
the window of a single ARP timeout, an IP address should not be used
on the link by a different Ethernet address.

> Let's see what the OP discovers.

I'm sure that one way or another, he's fine.

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