Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2022 22:05:08 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org> To: Takashi Inoue <inoue.takashi@nihon-u.ac.jp> Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: arp error message Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.2202022201090.68830@ai.fobar.qr> In-Reply-To: <c2f59c9d-db33-687d-250a-e572830f138e@nihon-u.ac.jp> References: <0e56cb56-10ea-3194-4595-01dfe27daa51@nihon-u.ac.jp> <CAJ-VmokUJSQq6coOFMsf6K4OwAdtYbMB=2cHCnQZSowrKQp1cQ@mail.gmail.com> <c2f59c9d-db33-687d-250a-e572830f138e@nihon-u.ac.jp>
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On Thu, 3 Feb 2022, Takashi Inoue wrote:
> Hi Chadd and All,
>
> Thanks. I was asleep.
>
> BTW, I wish that a treatment of the endless repeated message
> in any way is implemented in release.
ARP_LOG is behind a sysctl; you can just
sysctl net.link.ether.arp.log_level=0
to quiten them all.
It's alos behind ppsratecheck so it should be throttled.
> Dose someone can do this?
Question: which driver is this with as that may help figuring the
problem out? Is this iwlwifi because then that is likely a problem
there and I should figure out what's going wrong.
Best Regards,
Bjoern
> Best,
> T.Inoue
>
>
>
> On 2/3/22 04:59, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> Just comment out the AR_LOG line. Use '//', not '#'.
>>
>>
>> -a
>>
>> On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 at 11:17, Takashi Inoue <inoue.takashi@nihon-u.ac.jp>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I want to ask a favor to you.
>>> It may not concern wireless network directly. I'm sorry for this.
>>> I am using 13-STABLE ISO at 13th Jan.
>>>
>>> I get the following message in dmesg many many times repeatedly, lets
>>> say, every one second.
>>>
>>> arp: packet with invalid ethernet address length 0 received on wlan0
>>>
>>> According to a Google search, the reason of this may be in my network
>>> environment.
>>> But, I cannot change it. So, I want to stop the message by re-compiling
>>> kernel(module).
>>>
>>> I am going to modify /src/sys/netinet/if_ether.c around line 730.
>>> I am thinking just comment out the ARP_LOG function lines, like
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>>> if (hlen != 0 && hlen != ar->ar_hln) {
>>> # ARP_LOG(LOG_NOTICE,
>>> # "packet with invalid %s address length %d received on
>>> %s\n",
>>> # layer, ar->ar_hln, if_name(ifp));
>>> m_freem(m);
>>> return;
>>> }
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Do I have better to cut(comment out) the whole the if(){} part?
>>> Or, do you have a any better solution to suppress or reduce the message?
>>> Please give me some advice.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> T. Inoue
>>>
>
>
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