From owner-freebsd-net Wed Aug 25 12:31:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from maine.60north.net (maine.60north.net [198.143.201.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69DED14ECF; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:31:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ankzt@maine.60north.net) Received: from localhost (ankzt@localhost) by maine.60north.net (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA48085; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 15:30:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ankzt@maine.60north.net) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 15:30:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: 3.2 Stable & ARP changes. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi there, I run a server with two eathernet interfaces. One of the interfaces serves our unregistered networks - 192.168/16 and the other is connected to our public ip space 198.146.203/24. The router (cisco 2600) has the IP of 198.146.203.5, the default route of the BSD box in question. Whats happening is I will loose connectivity to that (the cisco's) ip address, however, it still shows up in my routing table with a hardware address as well as the arp table with the correct MAC address. Pre 3.2 stable (3.1 stable) this would happen but I would loose all reference to the address' in both the routing & arp table, this was fixed by arp -s ipaddr macaddr PUB. What Ive noticed now is that when i try to permenantly publish the ip & mac of the routers ethernet interface, arp -a doesnt show it as (permenant published) but as [eathernet]. The temporary fix for this siduation has been just to re arp -S ipaddr macaddr, but it continues to sporatically loose connectivity. Another peice to this puzzle is that both eathernet interfaces are plugged into the same hub, this causes me to continually recieve console messages stating kernel ipaddr is on ed1 but got reply from macaddr on ed2. I really dont think that the kernel messages matter but it would be nice to get rid of them. The ARP issue is big though, I have the crontab entry from HE!! to re arp the routers ethernet interface every 5 mins. thanks for any & all help. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message