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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
>
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