Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:21:59 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Mohana Krishna Penumetcha <pmk@sasi.com> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange arp packets!!! Message-ID: <20010316102159.B11527@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10103161023470.1683-100000@pcs113.sasi.com>; from pmk@sasi.com on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:37:07AM %2B0530 References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10103161023470.1683-100000@pcs113.sasi.com>
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-On [20010316 06:25], Mohana Krishna Penumetcha (pmk@sasi.com) wrote: >16:41:25.623476 arp who-has 0.0.0.0 tell 10.0.36.130 >16:41:30.639372 arp who-has 0.0.0.0 tell 10.0.36.130 >16:41:40.649838 arp who-has 0.0.0.0 tell 10.0.36.130 >16:41:45.631430 arp who-has 0.0.0.0 tell 10.0.36.130 >16:41:50.640533 arp who-has 0.0.0.0 tell 10.0.36.130 >16:42:00.651104 arp who-has 0.0.0.0 tell 10.0.36.130(--> pcs130) > >i am little confused what this means, since 0.0.0.0 means "this host"? Not necessarily, 0.0.0.0 can also mean default gateway, which is the more common use nowadays. 0.0.0.0 for `this host' is an old use IIRC. >or is it that, it is meant to update the arp entry corresponding to >pcs130 on other hosts in the subnet? in this case, it can as well say >"10.0.36.130" instead of "0.0.0.0". I am not sure right now, might be because my head's a little foggy. What does arp -a and netstat -rn look like on the FreeBSD box and on the Linux box? -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai .oUo. asmodai@[wxs.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best D78D D0AD 244D 1D12 C9CA 7152 035C 1138 546A B867 All of us visionaires with a rope around our neck... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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