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Date:      Mon, 6 Jun 2005 18:02:36 -0400
From:      Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: arplookup failed
Message-ID:  <DD3C151A-C479-4D7E-BD55-6DDB196E00F9@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <42A48EF5.10408@t-hosting.hu>
References:  <42A48EF5.10408@t-hosting.hu>

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On Jun 6, 2005, at 1:59 PM, K=F6vesd=E1n G=E1bor wrote:
> The following message has been often repeating in my messages log:
>
> Jun  6 19:24:38 server kernel: arplookup <here is an ip addr> =20
> failed: host is not on local network
>
> I know what arp is, and I understand this message, but I don't know =20=

> what causes it, but it annoys me, and I'd like to remove it from my =20=

> log, since it doesn't make any severe error, and I would like =20
> compendious log files. Do You have any idea?

It generally means that one or more of your hosts do not agree on =20
what the subnet mask should be.  You should look into and fix this =20
problem; layer-2 problems can result in remarkable and unexpected =20
network behavior sometimes...

--=20
-Chuck




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