From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 7 8:39:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.cvzoom.net (ns.cvzoom.net [208.226.154.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 70DCA37B965 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 08:39:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmmiller@cvzoom.net) Received: (qmail 26183 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2000 15:39:33 -0000 Received: from lcb89.cvzoom.net (HELO cvzoom.net) (63.65.159.89) by ns.cvzoom.net with SMTP; 7 Apr 2000 15:39:33 -0000 Message-ID: <38EE011D.B81BA63C@cvzoom.net> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 11:39:09 -0400 From: Donn Miller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Overwhelming messages from /sys/netinet/if_ether.c Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------ABD696746D33D54680111FE2" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------ABD696746D33D54680111FE2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Since I started using a cable modem and dhclient, my system has been literally overwhelmed with messages like: /kernel: arp: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! Man, these messages were pouring out of syslogd like mad, and my /var/log/messages* files had to be deleted, because they were growing so huge. There were literally hundreds of these messages pouring out via syslogd per second, and they were coming non-stop. There were so many messages coming out, my hard drive was overwhelmed until dhclient finally obtain/ed a lease. That said, I suggest we make the following patch to /sys/netinet/if_ether.c: --- if_ether.c.orig Wed Mar 29 02:50:39 2000 +++ if_ether.c Fri Apr 7 11:24:54 2000 @@ -554,9 +554,9 @@ return; } if (isaddr.s_addr == myaddr.s_addr) { - log(LOG_ERR, + /* log(LOG_ERR, "arp: %6D is using my IP address %s!\n", - ea->arp_sha, ":", inet_ntoa(isaddr)); + ea->arp_sha, ":", inet_ntoa(isaddr)); */ itaddr = myaddr; goto reply; } - Donn --------------ABD696746D33D54680111FE2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="if_ether.diff" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="if_ether.diff" --- if_ether.c.orig Wed Mar 29 02:50:39 2000 +++ if_ether.c Fri Apr 7 11:24:54 2000 @@ -554,9 +554,9 @@ return; } if (isaddr.s_addr == myaddr.s_addr) { - log(LOG_ERR, + /* log(LOG_ERR, "arp: %6D is using my IP address %s!\n", - ea->arp_sha, ":", inet_ntoa(isaddr)); + ea->arp_sha, ":", inet_ntoa(isaddr)); */ itaddr = myaddr; goto reply; } --------------ABD696746D33D54680111FE2-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message