From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jul 29 15:57:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA28356 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 15:57:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from monet.telebyte.nl (jvissers@monet.telebyte.nl [193.67.242.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA28351 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 15:57:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jvissers@localhost) by monet.telebyte.nl (8.7.3/8.6.11) id AAA22765 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 00:57:34 +0200 From: Jos Vissers Message-Id: <199607292257.AAA22765@monet.telebyte.nl> Subject: Re: ethernet address disappearing in arp To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 00:57:34 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <199607292219.AAA21842@monet.telebyte.nl> from "Jos Vissers" at Jul 30, 96 00:19:16 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > We've got 2 FreeBSD boxes (2.1.0 and 2.1.5) connected to the > same gateway (a cisco). After a while both of them lost > the ethernet address for this gateway. arp -a showed > incomplete for the gateway. > When I add a permanent arp entry for the cisco it seems to work > (for now). > > This all occurred after I added an ip alias (from another > c-class network) to both machines. > > I've configured one of the two machines as a gateway between > the 2 c-class networks, but they use the same physical link. I forgot to mention the netmask for both aliases is 0xffffff00. Both machines are running routed. Jos -- Jos Vissers, System administrator Telebyte