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Date:      Tue, 02 Jan 2001 07:01:49 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=E9lix=2DAntoine?= Paradis <reel@sympatico.ca>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ARP question.
Message-ID:  <3A51ED5D.F5724A99@elischer.org>
References:  <5.0.2.1.0.20010102023010.00a101f0@pop6.sympatico.ca> <20010101234324.Z19572@fw.wintelcom.net>

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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> * Félix-Antoine Paradis <reel@sympatico.ca> [010101 23:28] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >       When we do a "dmesg" on a 4.2-STABLE box, we get:
> >
> > arp: 200.42.126.18 moved from 00:e0:7d:7b:53:f0 to 00:c0:df:f4:ac:05 on ed0
> >
> > and, in ifconfig, it says:
> >
> > ed0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> >           inet 200.42.126.20 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 200.42.126.255
> >           inet6 fe80::2e0:7dff:fe7b:548a%ed0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> >           ether 00:e0:7d:7b:54:8a
> >
> > ed0 is connected to a switch. we want to know what the "arp: " message
> > means. on the linux box, we have:
> >
> > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:C0:DF:F4:AC:05
> >            inet addr:200.42.126.18  Bcast:200.42.126.23  Mask:255.255.255.248
> >            UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >            RX packets:12738748 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:556
> >             TX packets:4014499 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >             collisions:172394 txqueuelen:100
> >             Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe800
> > eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:7D:7B:53:F0
> >             inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> >             UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >             RX packets:3634104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:4
> >             TX packets:3842298 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >             collisions:197818 txqueuelen:100
> >             Interrupt:12 Base address:0xec00
> >   inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> >
> > Both eth0 and eth1 are connected to that same switch.

If they are receiving each other's broadcasts then arp will get upset.

(As you noticed)



> 
> You should check /var/log/messages for the datestamp.
> 
> Basically it means someone took someone's arp address either by
> 1) taking the IP from a different machine.
> 2) telling a machine to change its hardware address.
> 
> --
> -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
> "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."
> 
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