From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 7 12:42:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wrs.com (unknown-1-11.wrs.com [147.11.1.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CCA437C123 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 12:42:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davidhol@windriver.com) Received: from papermill.wrs.com (papermill [147.11.48.34]) by mail.wrs.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA17053; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 12:42:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from papermill (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by papermill.wrs.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA01133; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 12:42:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200004071942.MAA01133@papermill.wrs.com> To: "Alexander N. Kabaev" Cc: dmmiller@cvzoom.net (Donn Miller), current@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Holloway Subject: Re: Overwhelming messages from /sys/netinet/if_ether.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 07 Apr 2000 14:59:10 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 12:42:28 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I say with 99% certainty that assigning 0.0.0.0 to the interface is a requirement of dhcp. You can't stop using it and expect dhcp to work. In message , "Alexander N. Kabaev" writes: >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 sam >e >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 t >o >>> 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message