From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 25 9:41: 5 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D5D37B401 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:41:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from bjwcs.com (swing.bjwcs.com [208.185.25.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D97A43F3F for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:41:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brently@bjwcs.com) Received: from samba [68.98.15.6] by bjwcs.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.07) id AAACB5100EA; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:41:00 -0500 From: "Brent Wiese" To: "'Chris Phillips'" , Subject: RE: Dmesg filled with "arp: link address is broadcast for IP address" Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:41:00 -0700 Message-ID: <004301c2dcf5$102d7cf0$0a0114ac@home.bjwcs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 In-Reply-To: <000301c2dbab$5d1df490$1508060a@furrie.net> Importance: Normal X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > arp: link address is broadcast for IP address 10.6.8.22! > arp: link address is broadcast for IP address 10.6.8.22! > arp: link address is broadcast for IP address 10.6.8.22! > arp: link address is broadcast for IP address 10.6.8.22! > > Then I put the suspect host on to DHCP & on reboot I got this > in dmesg: > - > arp: link address is broadcast for IP address 169.254.14.80! Sounds like the IP address on your unix box is an IP that falls on a subnet boundry. IE: 10.6.8.31 mask 255.255.255.224 Brent To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message