From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 16 12:47:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6820616A4CE for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:47:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw01.mail.saunalahti.fi (gw01.mail.saunalahti.fi [195.197.172.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C38FC43D2F for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:47:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mj@sci.fi) Received: from fw.netauth.com (roswell.pp.jippii.fi [62.142.244.198]) by gw01.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with SMTP id D4885111D4B6 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:47:55 +0200 (EET) Received: (qmail 10133 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2004 20:47:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gentoo.netauth.com) (192.168.1.2) by fw.netauth.com with SMTP; 16 Mar 2004 20:47:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 3727 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Mar 2004 20:47:54 -0000 Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:47:54 +0200 From: Mike Jackson To: Darryl Hoar Message-ID: <20040316204754.GB6815@gentoo.pp.jippii.fi> Mail-Followup-To: Darryl Hoar , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <010e01c40b90$76b18c80$0701a8c0@darryl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <010e01c40b90$76b18c80$0701a8c0@darryl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/log/messages question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:47:57 -0000 Darryl Hoar (darryl@osborne-ind.com) wrote: > Greetings, > I have a 4.4-stable box configured as my firewall > running IPFilter and doing nat and routing to > the internet. > > I keep getting: > > Mar 16 13:10:09 darryl /kernel: arplookup 10.2.2.2 failed: host is not on > local network > > in my /var/log/messages file. It is coming from my DSL facing interface. I > used ethereal > to capture packets and determine the MAC address. Turns out to be a "vendor > testpoint" > on some OSI gear the ISP is using. They cannot correct this problem. > > ARP comes way before IPFilter, therefore I do not believe it can be > filtered. > > Is there anything I can do to prevent these warnings/errors from clogging up > my > log files ? This will happen if you have a public static ip address on your freebsd box, connected to an adsl router but the adsl router's lan interface is on a different network. This situation primarily occurs when you turn an adsl router into an adsl modem, e.g. you enable ppp half-bridge mode. I pipe those, and other messages to a virtual terminal, like this: syslog.conf -- *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice /dev/ttyv3 BR, -- mike