From owner-freebsd-net Tue Oct 9 14: 0:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from iguana.aciri.org (iguana.aciri.org [192.150.187.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE0BE37B408 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 14:00:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by iguana.aciri.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f99Kv5k94419; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 13:57:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rizzo) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200110092057.f99Kv5k94419@iguana.aciri.org> Subject: Re: strange side effect of net.inet.ip.fastforwarding: 1 In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011009164757.036f5080@marble.sentex.ca> from Mike Tancsa at "Oct 9, 2001 4:50:39 pm" To: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 13:57:05 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > When enabling this, I found that my kernel logs were full of all sorts of > > arplookup xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa failed: host is not on local network. > > The strange this is that, that is correct, they are NOT on my local network > and never have been. So, why would the box suddenly think, seemingly > random networks would be local to my machine. Note, the box is running bgp > with a full view (110,000+ routes). > Any idea why this would be the case ? A bug ? An effect of a cache > lookup/miss? requests are being normally filtered by the firewall somehow ? (i know, arp is not ip, so they should get through anyways...) cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message