Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 21:48:24 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Anders Andersson <anders@sanyusan.se> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /kernel: arp messages Message-ID: <20000215214824.D45552@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <20000215154234.A82046@sanyusan.se>; from anders@sanyusan.se on Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 03:42:34PM %2B0100 References: <20000215154234.A82046@sanyusan.se>
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 03:42:34PM +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: > I have a gateway box that is running natd and gets a lot of messages > like these: > > arp: 212.209.55.84 is on xl0 but got reply from 00:80:5f:0d:5a:ba on xl1 > arp: 192.168.4.19 is on xl1 but got reply from 00:08:c7:1b:ff:83 on xl0 > arp: 212.209.55.84 is on xl0 but got reply from 00:80:5f:0d:5a:ba on xl1 > > I think it is because I have all things connected to the same switch. Hmmm? A switch should keep that kind of noise down a bit. > The internet router, both the NIC's in the gateway box and all the > workstations "hidden" behind the gateway box are all connected to the > same 3com switch. > > Is there a way to make this behaviour go away? Yes. A host should only have _one_ NIC on a single physical network. You can only hurt your performance. > Everythings works just > fine and dandy but it is kind of annoying that these messages fill up my > logs pretty fast. Misconfiguations will cause that kind of thing. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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