From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 15 19: 0:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B91B4A16 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 18:46:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA46436; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 21:48:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 21:48:24 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Anders Andersson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /kernel: arp messages Message-ID: <20000215214824.D45552@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <20000215154234.A82046@sanyusan.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000215154234.A82046@sanyusan.se>; from anders@sanyusan.se on Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 03:42:34PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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