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To: Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net>
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From: David Holloway <davidhol@windriver.com>
Subject: Re: Overwhelming messages from /sys/netinet/if_ether.c 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 07 Apr 2000 11:39:09 EDT."
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I have seen that situation before as well
and there may be more slight tolerance-style improvements
that could be made but I can't think of any at the moment.

In message <38EE011D.B81BA63C@cvzoom.net>, Donn Miller writes:
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>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
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>--- 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;
> 	}
>
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>
>
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