From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jan 16 9:59:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AE8537B404 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:59:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from sv.Go2France.com (sv.meiway.com [212.73.210.79]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 380676A910 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 18:59:25 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010116185535.05c80390@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: lconrad%Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 18:57:34 +0100 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: arp pb's : correction In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010116180407.056deda0@mail.Go2France.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >We have a FreeBSD 3.1R machine as our main router uplinking to a >Cisco 3620 (back to back, no switch). > >All works well, and had for months. After a reboot of cisco and >freebsd, all still works well, but we cannot ping cisco inside to >fbsd outside (the back to back interfaces with x-over cable), plus >when we traceroute up to internet, all we get is * * * when >traversing that link, followed by normal traceoute behavior. > >This link carries several a gigabyte of traffic a day in both >directions without pb's, but we have this problem with that link. I found a garbage route had crept into my routing table with a gateway of 255.255.255.252. So that's fixed the arp complaints but the above pb persists. >dmesg shows tons of: > >arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 255.255.255.252rt >arplookup 255.255.255.252 failed: host is not on local network >arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 255.255.255.252rt >arplookup 255.255.255.252 failed: host is not on local network >arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 255.255.255.252rt > > >and /var/log/messages shows: > >Jan 16 18:03:49 gw1 /kernel: arplookup 255.255.255.252 failed: host >is not on local network >Jan 16 18:03:49 gw1 /kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for >255.255.255.252rt >Jan 16 18:03:51 gw1 /kernel: arplookup 255.255.255.252 failed: host >is not on local network >Jan 16 18:03:51 gw1 /kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for >255.255.255.252rt >Jan 16 18:03:52 gw1 /kernel: arplookup 255.255.255.252 failed: host >is not on local network >Jan 16 18:03:52 gw1 /kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for >255.255.255.252rt > >255.255.255.252 is of course not an ip address but a netmask on the >two of the 3 xl0 cards in that machine. > >ifconfig -a shows nothing strange To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message