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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