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Date:      Sun, 05 Aug 2001 15:35:24 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        "Douglas G. Allen" <dallen@roe35.lth2.k12.il.us>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Stable Listserv" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: arp doesn't like two NIC's in same subnet on same machine? 
Message-ID:  <200108052035.f75KZOx28433@grumpy.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Douglas G. Allen" <dallen@roe35.lth2.k12.il.us>  of "Sun, 05 Aug 2001 12:03:37 CDT." <200108051203370733.0093DA8F@mail.roe35.lth2.k12.il.us> 

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"Douglas G. Allen" writes:
> I have a machine running 4.3-RELEASE, with softupdates enabled.  I
> have two I ntel 100 Pro NIC's in the machine, an Adaptec controller
> card, and an 18G Ultra 160 drive in it (running at 80, if it makes any
> difference).  I have the default route to the router set to always go
> out through fxp0.  When both fxp0 and fxp1 are enabled, I get
> complaints from arp about inquiries going out from fxp0 having
> answers received on fxp1.  Everything else 'seems' to be ok.  The box
> is  running as a web server with each NIC referenced for different
> sites in different DNS A records.
> 
> Is there an easy way to get rid of the arp message?

Two NICs on the same LAN segment is only for the purpose of using two IP
addresses? Why don't you "ifconfig fxp0 alias ..." and use only one NIC?

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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