From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 4 9:36:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F10C837B401 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 09:36:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from dan (dan.mostgraveconcern.com [10.20.155.5]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with SMTP id f74GZsv52154; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 09:36:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <015e01c11d03$90c324e0$059b140a@dan> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Victor Grey" , References: Subject: Re: kernel: arp messages Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 09:35:54 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 > Can anyone explain why I keep getting messages in /var/log/messages like > this: > > Aug 4 06:10:28 p2 /kernel: arp: 192.168.1.1 is on fxp0 but got reply from > 00:04:28:96:44:00 on fxp1 This is leaking in from your Cable/DSL connection. Someone else on your side of the ISP's router is using the same local network addressing, but they don't have their gateway configured properly (most likely a Windows box). The messages won't affect your network, but if you don't want to see them, change your network addresses to something a little less common, such as "192.168.53.x"... --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com FreeBSD Cheat Sheets http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message