From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 16 10:52:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from babel.acu.edu (babel.acu.edu [150.252.167.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B5FF37B43E for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 10:52:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scattered@babel.acu.edu) Received: from localhost (scattered@localhost) by babel.acu.edu (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA10545 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 12:51:37 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 12:51:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Cary To: freebsd-questions Subject: console message from /kernel Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I got the following message on my console: Apr 15 16:51:26 mykernel /kernel: arp: unknown hardware address format (0x0008 ) Apr 15 16:52:56 mykernel /kernel: arp: unknown hardware address format (0x0108 ) Apr 15 16:53:26 mykernel /kernel: arp: unknown hardware address format (0x0008 ) I did a quick grep through my /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MYKERNEL config file and got: $ grep arp MYKERNEL $ (i.e. nothing) Then a grep through the actual kernel (/kernel) reveiled: $ strings /kernel | grep *arp* arpresolve arp_ifinit arpintrq arp_rtrequest: bad gateway value arp_rtrequest: malloc failed arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for %s%s%s arpintr arp: runt packet -- m_pullup failed arp: unknown hardware address format (0x%2D) /* <--!That's my message */ arp: runt packet log_arp_wrong_iface arp: ether address is broadcast for IP address %s! arp: %6D is using my IP address %s! arp: %s is on %s%d but got reply from %6D on %s%d arp: %s moved from %6D to %6D on %s%d arp: %6D attempts to modify permanent entry for %s on %s%d arptfree arplookup %s failed: %s arpkludge What do I need to change so as to not get this message anymore? the arp(4) man page gave some diagnosic help, but did not list the particular message I am getting. My system is running 4.3-RC, dual PPro, 128MB, Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B on-board network connection. Thank you in advance, Cary Mathews Abilene Christian University ACM Education Committee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message