From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 14 19:36:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bastion.internal.lustygrapes.net (dhcp065-024-083-096.columbus.rr.com [65.24.83.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 609D137B405 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 19:36:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from nivomede.internal.lustygrapes.net (nivomede.internal.lustygrapes.net [192.168.10.65]) by bastion.internal.lustygrapes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D01BF5A3E for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 22:36:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:36:19 -0500 (EST) From: Brian McDonald X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Re: unknown kernel error message In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20011114213209.O1437-100000@nivomede.internal.lustygrapes.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 After someone suggested that Mandrake Linux can send the arp for type 0800 on occasion, I got a tcpdump running when my wifes laptop shutdown this evening: nivomede# tcpdump -lenx arp tcpdump: listening on fxp0 21:30:47.609116 0:10:a4:b8:93:2c ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 0806 60: arp-#2 for proto #2048 (4) hardware #2048 (0) 0800 0800 0004 0002 0000 0000 0000 c0a8 0a4c 0000 0000 0000 ffff ffff 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 The correlation to the kernel message was right on time. Not a FreeBSD problem, I'd think. Brian On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:07:02 -0600 (CST) > From: Conrad Sabatier > To: James McNaughton > Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, > Rick Bradley > Subject: Re: unknown kernel error message > > > On 14-Nov-2001 James McNaughton wrote: > >> > > >> > 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? > > As far as I know, he's only connected through his NIC to a cable modem. > > -- Brian McDonald, MCP Klein bottle for sale. Inquire within. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message