From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 2 4:51:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sonic.kks.net (sonic.kks.net [213.161.0.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66B2237B417 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 04:51:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from voyager.kksonline.com (5-51.ro.cable.kks.net [213.161.5.51]) by sonic.kks.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3523522F; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 13:51:46 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20020302134139.02c6a6e8@213.161.0.10> X-Sender: arozman@ 213.161.0.10 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 13:43:32 +0100 To: Alex From: Aleksander Rozman - Andy Subject: Re: ARP quiestion whas [Re: ] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <13614235779.20020222134749@cybertron.tmfweb.nl> References: <004701c1ba56$8b888ba0$0d00a8c0@alexus> <004701c1ba56$8b888ba0$0d00a8c0@alexus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 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 ************************************************************************** * Aleksander Rozman - Andy * Fandoms: E2:EA, SAABer, Trekkie, Earthie * * andy@kksonline.com * Sentinel, BH 90210, True's Trooper, * * andy@atechnet.dhs.org * Heller's Angel, Questie, Legacy, PO5, * * Maribor, Slovenia (Europe) * Profiler, Buffy (Slayerete), Pretender * * ICQ-UIC: 4911125 ********************************************* * PGP key available * http://www.atechnet.dhs.org/~andy/ * ************************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message