From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 4 12:27:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA28116 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 12:27:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (root@orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA28111 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 12:27:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (gpalmer@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA23018; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 15:26:51 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: orion.webspan.net: Host gpalmer@localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Paul Walsh cc: questions@freebsd.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: arp info overwritten In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Sep 1996 10:22:41 BST." <322D4A61.76AA@nation-net.com> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 15:26:50 -0400 Message-ID: <23012.841865210@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Paul Walsh wrote in message ID <322D4A61.76AA@nation-net.com>: > Is this message anything to worry about? > The 2 IPs are machines in our class C. > > arp info overwritten for 194.159.125.100 by 00:05:02:44:5f:d1 > arp info overwritten for 194.159.125.110 by 00:05:02:54:3f:54 > > Thanks, Paul Walsh. Basically, one IP -> MAC translation was stored in the routing table, and then the machine received a differing version from a different MAC address, so it prints the warning as it's most commonly machines which are trying (illegally) to share the same IP address. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info