From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 4 22:44:26 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 CAE1E37B401 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 22:44:23 -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 f755iIv53302; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 22:44:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <003c01c11d71$ab0620a0$059b140a@dan> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: , References: <15212.23443.993430.346040@guru.mired.org> Subject: Re: kernel: arp messages Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 22:44:17 -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 > > 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). > > I think you're assuming things about his network topology that may not > be true. The basic explanation is right, though - you've got two boxes > trying to use that IP address on different networks. EVERY time I've seen this (at least 7 or 8 times, once personally on my home and once on my work network) it's been coming from the DSL or Cable Modem connection... --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