Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 12:22:03 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: David Holloway <davidhol@windriver.com>, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Overwhelming messages from /sys/netinet/if_ether.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004081018130.29108-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200004080032.RAA03588@mass.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > However, this isn't really an excuse for issuing ARP with a source address > > of zero: the initial DHCP exchange is done with broadcasts (so doesn't > > need ARP), and after that the address is known. The problem presumably > > arises due to other traffic trying to go out while DHCP is still > > configuring the interface. > > If you look at the original error message, you'll note that it's actually > due to seeing another packet which claims the same Ip address. Yes, but what caused that packet to be sent? Plainly, with only a single machine (and all others correctly configured) you'll never see the error. If you've got one machine configured to do DHCP, you've probably got several - and so if two boot at the same time you have the conditions to generate the error. On the other hand, this isn't really a plausible explanation for "overwhelming" numbers of errors - unless perhaps the DHCP server is dead. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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