From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 14 10:45:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-2.enteract.com (smtp-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5E4C37B417; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:45:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from jamestown.21stcentury.net (24-148-18-116.na.21stcentury.net [24.148.18.116]) by smtp-2.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26BEDC40C; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:45:13 -0600 (CST) Received: (from jtm@localhost) by jamestown.21stcentury.net (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fAEIjJo05059; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:45:19 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jtm) To: Rick Bradley Cc: Conrad Sabatier , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unknown kernel error message References: <20011112095417.F25208@negwo.eastcore.net> From: James McNaughton Date: 14 Nov 2001 12:45:18 -0600 In-Reply-To: Rick Bradley's message of "Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:54:17 -0600" Message-ID: <86u1vxfayp.fsf@jamestown.21stcentury.net> Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rick Bradley writes: > * Conrad Sabatier (conrads@home.com) [011112 09:16]: > > A friend of mine is getting these lately, every time he boots his > > 4.4-STABLE box (I just cvsupped him and built a new world and kernel last > > night to see if it would help; didn't): > > > > Nov 11 22:36:10 unixpros /kernel: arp: unknown hardware address format > > (0x0800) > I get this same message often since I got a cable modem. There seems to be no pattern as to when it occurs. I infer from the wording that someone on the local ethernet segment is advertising a weird non-ethernet MAC address. I have found no explanation so far and stopped looking for one. There appears to be no degredation to my system performance. Is this coming from the ISP's network or is it an internal network? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message