From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 20 12:28:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-out2.apple.com (mail-out2.apple.com [17.254.0.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C929737B440; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 12:28:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (A17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out2.apple.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA29732; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 12:28:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scv2.apple.com (scv2.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.1.5) with ESMTP id ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 12:28:24 -0700 Received: from glitch ([17.219.158.69]) by scv2.apple.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA03453; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 12:28:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200008201928.MAA03453@scv2.apple.com> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 00:51:30 -0700 From: "Justin C. Walker" Reply-To: justin@apple.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Networking Error Question Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Roger T. Harvey" , "Rick M. Aseltine" , "Jonathan M. Slivko" , Steve Krujelskis To: "Jason L. Schwab" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.328.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v328.2) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, August 19, 2000, at 04:37 PM, Jason L. Schwab wrote: > Heya People,=20 > =20 > I have three machines, up on a colocated network,=20 > One machine handles almost everything, it has=20 > =20 > 216.84.199.164 thro 216.84.199.154, and=20 > 216.253.163.2 thro 216.253.163.254 binded to it=20 > using (ifconfig device inet IP netmask NETMASK alias)=20 > =20 > I get this error alot in my messages:=20 > =20 > Aug 19 17:33:20 alpha /kernel: arplookup 216.253.163.1 failed: host is = not=20 > on local network=20 > Aug 19 17:33:20 alpha last message repeated 4 times=20 > =20 > =20 > Any ideas or suggestions would be greatful!=20 Since you don't have enough info here to be sure, I can't help much; you = may already know this, but one thing to keep in mind: when assigning to = an interface an alias which is on the same subnet as an existing = address, you should use the netmask 255.255.255.255; and at least one of = the addresses from that subnet should be assigned with a "real" netmask. The fact that the use of only the .1 address gives complaints leads me = to believe that the latter could be your problem. Regards, Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large * Institute for General Semantics | Manager, CoreOS Networking | Men are from Earth. Apple Computer, Inc. | Women are from Earth. 2 Infinite Loop | Deal with it. Cupertino, CA 95014 | *-------------------------------------*-----------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message