From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Oct 20 18:53:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3A4137B403 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 18:53:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from veager.jwweeks.com ([65.14.122.116]) by femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20011021015318.QDIS571.femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com@veager.jwweeks.com> for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 18:53:18 -0700 Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 21:53:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Weeks X-Sender: jim@veager.jwweeks.com To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: arplookup failed: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Would someone please check me on this. I know this has been discussed before and I want to make sure I understand correctly. I am receiving the following error, Oct 20 21:16:21 server /kernel: arplookup XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX failed: host is not on local network Indeed the server issuing the request is not on the same subnet. If I understand arp correctly, the kernel is not able to respond to a mac address not directly connected to the subnet of the responding machine. After looking at the results of "tcpdump -n -e -p arp", I see a lot of traffic from several subnets. Should I be seeing arp requests other than those initiated by my default gateway or other machines on the same subnet? Why would this machine be issuing request for interfaces connected to a different subnet, and if it should, why isn't it directing the requests to my default gateway? Am I correct in assuming that this is a routing problem and not something I can correct from my end? Thanks in advance, -- Jim Weeks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message