Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 06:35:03 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson@wixb.com> Subject: Re: arp issues...but WHY Message-ID: <200405040635.03640.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.2.20040504071343.024331b8@localhost> References: <6.1.0.6.2.20040504071343.024331b8@localhost>
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On Tuesday 04 May 2004 05:23 am, J.D. Bronson wrote: > I have a FreeBSD 5.2.1 machine that has dual NICs. > I would expect the following behavior if I placed both NICs > on the same subnet (192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 for example)... > > But in this case they are totally unique: > > NIC #1 - 10.10.10.1 255.255.255.0 > NIC #2 - 192.168.10.1 255.255.255.0 > Default gateway: 10.10.10.10 > > I am using a single SWITCH for all of my connections. This is the problem. You don't have two networks and since both NICs are on the same network, it complains. Kent > > most of my LAN is on the '10' block, but I have a few machines and 1 > router that are on the '192' block. > > When I telnet into the freebsd machine from the '10.10.10.5' to the > '10' block I see ARP comments on the console that I dont understand: > > > arp: 10.10.10.5 is on fxp0 but got reply from 00:10:7b:80:04:40 on > fxp1 > > How is this possible? - the laptop has NO IP on the 192 block at all. > I understand how to shut up these errors using 'sysctl' - but I > wanted to know why I am seeing them in the first place? > > -JDB > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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