From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 7 11:59:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from h132-197-97-45.gte.com (h132-197-97-45.gte.com [132.197.97.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2766237B7BC for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 11:59:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ak03@gte.com) Received: (from ak03@localhost) by h132-197-97-45.gte.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA73007; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 14:59:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ak03) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200004071833.LAA41098@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 14:59:10 -0400 (EDT) Organization: GTE Laboratories Inc. From: "Alexander N. Kabaev" To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Subject: Re: Overwhelming messages from /sys/netinet/if_ether.c Cc: (Donn Miller) , current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD dhclient-script assigns 0.0.0.0 address to the interface in PREINIT in order to bring interface up. Windows seems to do that as well or there is no sane explanation for the relatively big number of these nasty messages I am getting every time MediaOne network goes down and several PCs sharing the same cable network segment attempt to renew their lease at the same time. On 07-Apr-00 Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> The message in question can be extremely useful in case there is IP address >> clash on the local network. I suggest we just change the code in question to >> ignore clashes over 0.0.0.0 address only. > > No, don't do that, anyone arping 0.0.0.0 on any network around here > I sure as heck want to know about it asap! Someone someplace on > that stupid telco's DSL bridged network is mis-configured and > sending out arp messages for the 0 addresses. Easy enough to > cause though: > > ifconfig xx0 0.0.0.0 up > > should do the trick... > ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Alexander N. Kabaev Date: 07-Apr-00 Time: 14:35:14 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message