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Date:      Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:40:58 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        ODHIAMBO Washington <wash@wananchi.com>, FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: arp messages: Why is this happening?
Message-ID:  <20030613154057.GN53468@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030613152226.GA91843@ns2.wananchi.com>
References:  <20030613152226.GA91843@ns2.wananchi.com>

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In the last episode (Jun 13), ODHIAMBO Washington said:
> 
> My log files (and console) fill up with these messages.
> 
> > arp: 62.8.64.172 moved from 00:c0:05:11:01:f1 to 00:c0:05:10:01:f1 on bge1
> > arp: 62.8.64.201 moved from 00:c0:05:10:01:f1 to 00:c0:05:11:01:f1 on bge1
> > arp: 62.8.64.201 moved from 00:c0:05:11:01:f1 to 00:c0:05:10:01:f1 on bge1
> > arp: 62.8.64.145 moved from 00:c0:05:11:01:f1 to 00:c0:05:10:01:f1 on bge1
> > arp: 62.8.64.212 moved from 00:c0:05:11:01:f1 to 00:c0:05:10:01:f1 on bge1
> > arp: 62.8.64.188 moved from 00:c0:05:11:01:f1 to 00:c0:05:10:01:f1 on bge1
> ...

What are the machines at those two mac addresses?  Are they maybe
clustered servers, and during failover, you see an arp line for each ip
that gets moved from one to the other?

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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