Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 10:16:51 -0500 From: Mikel <mikel@upan.org> To: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu> Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "arp: XX is on xx0 but got reply from YY on yy0" message Message-ID: <3A0C1163.82FDA989@upan.org> References: <Pine.HPX.4.05.10011100848100.4255-100000@popeye.cs.iastate.edu>
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could you maybe send a copy (or a mock copy) of your rc.conf files? Guy Helmer wrote: > I'm working with a situation where a machine will have two interfaces on > the same Ethernet segment. One interface does not have an IP address and > is in promiscuous mode to listen to the segment; the other interface has > an IP address and is running normally. The kernel logs a lot of "arp: XX > is on xx0 but got reply from YY on yy0" messages. > > Questions also appear on the FreeBSD lists asking about this message when > people have multiple interfaces in different IP subnets on the same wire. > > >From reading the source in for in_arpinput() in > /sys/netinet/if_ether.c, it appears that the kernel just logs this message > and harmlessly tosses the packet. If this *is* harmless, would it be OK > to make the log message conditional on a sysctl toggle? > > Guy > > Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Candidate, Iowa State University Dept. of Computer Science > Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science --- ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu > http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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