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From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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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