Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 12:46:07 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: ak03@gte.com (Alexander N. Kabaev) Cc: dmmiller@cvzoom.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Overwhelming messages from /sys/netinet/if_ether.c Message-ID: <200004071946.MAA41238@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000407145910.ak03@gte.com> from "Alexander N. Kabaev" at "Apr 7, 2000 02:59:10 pm"
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> 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. Ahhh... then perhaps a better fix is to change the gratitious arp routine to _not_ emit the bogus arp who-has arp-i-am when an interface is ifconfig'ed to 0.0.0.0 rather than cause the error logging code to be disabled? > > > 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 <ak03@gte.com> > Date: 07-Apr-00 > Time: 14:35:14 > ---------------------------------- > -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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