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Date:      Sat, 02 Mar 2002 13:43:32 +0100
From:      Aleksander Rozman - Andy <andy@kksonline.com>
To:        Alex <akruijff@dds.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ARP quiestion whas [Re: ]
Message-ID:  <5.0.2.1.0.20020302134139.02c6a6e8@213.161.0.10>
In-Reply-To: <13614235779.20020222134749@cybertron.tmfweb.nl>
References:  <004701c1ba56$8b888ba0$0d00a8c0@alexus> <004701c1ba56$8b888ba0$0d00a8c0@alexus>

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At 22.2.2002, you wrote:
>Hello alexus,
>
>Wednesday, February 20, 2002, 10:35:41 PM, you wrote:
>
>a> can someone explain me what does it means? i get this in my syslog
>
>a> /kernel: arplookup xx.xxx.x.xx failed: could not allocate llinfo
>a> /kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for xx.xxx.x.xxrt
>
>I beleave arp is used in IP to MAC adress translation. So my quess is
>the translation info of the xx.xxx.x.xx adress could not be found.
>
>--
>Best regards,
>  Alex
>
Actually ARP doesn't actually have to translate just from IP to MAC. It can 
translate from IP to any HW Adrress it is defined to use. But it usually 
just translates from IP to MAC. (at least on BSD).

Andy



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