From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 17 7:27:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hydrant.intranova.net (hydrant.intranova.net [209.201.95.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FA2637B787 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 07:27:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oogali@intranova.net) Received: (qmail 91935 invoked from network); 17 Feb 2000 15:25:25 -0000 Received: from localhost (oogali@127.0.0.1) by hydrant.intranova.net with SMTP; 17 Feb 2000 15:25:25 -0000 Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 10:25:25 -0500 (EST) From: Omachonu Ogali To: Scott Culverhouse Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Arplookup! In-Reply-To: <38ABCCBB3C1.D4C8BSD@lion.dna-is.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why is someone attempting to send packets to the netmask, otherwise, I hope you didn't define 255.255.255.0 as a valid IP address. On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Scott Culverhouse wrote: > On our firewall we get messages to the console/syslog as follows:- > > arplookup 255.255.255.0 failed: host is not on local network > fw /kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 255.255.255.0rt > > We have not made any changes, is this a configuration problem or as we > suppect is someone trying something wierd. > > Any comments would be welcomed! > > Regards > > Scott > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Omachonu Ogali oogali@intranova.net | | Intranova Networking Group http://tribune.intranova.net | | PGP Key ID: 0xBFE60839 | | PGP Fingerprint: C8 51 14 FD 2A 87 53 D1 E3 AA 12 12 01 93 BD 34 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message