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Date:      Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:15:53 -0500
From:      Chris Boyd <CBoyd@apogeetelecom.com>
To:        'Chris Knipe' <savage@savage.za.org>, Jim Laurenson <j.laurenson@epicmail.ca>, Craig Miller <craig@millerfam.net>, freebsd-security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: wierdness in my security report
Message-ID:  <5A1E91591378D243B6B6C5425F2B2B3E1DE9B3@apexch.apogeetelecom.com>

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Hm.  I though that HSRP cloned the MAC as well, so as not to break all those
retro source route bridged protocols.  Time to go hit the books for me....

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Chris Knipe [SMTP:savage@savage.za.org]
> Sent:	Thursday, July 18, 2002 1:10 PM
> To:	Jim Laurenson; Craig Miller; freebsd-security
> Subject:	Re: wierdness in my security report
> 
> If it is Cisco, it's more than likely HSRP (Host Standby Router Protocol).
>  
> It happens where two different routers are configured in a redundancy
> scenario with a "virtual" IP.  What will happen, is that x.x.x.1 is a
> virtual IP, while x.x.x.2 and x.x.x.3 is assigned to the Ethernet ports.
>  
> Router 1 which is x.x.x.2 will have the virtual IP of x.x.x.1 on .2's MAC
> address, however, when the router goes down, Router 2 reclaims the virtual
> IP .1, on the MAC address of .3  
>  
> Therefore, the MAC address changes, and to my understanding that is what
> causes the message to be displayed.  I can however, be wrong and the
> change or "switching" of one IP to another MAC address may have nothing to
> do with the cause of the log message.
>  
> --
> me
>  
>  
> 
> 	----- Original Message ----- 
> 	From: Jim Laurenson <mailto:j.laurenson@epicmail.ca> 
> 	To: Craig Miller <mailto:craig@millerfam.net> ; freebsd-security
> <mailto:freebsd-security@freebsd.org> 
> 	Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 7:53 PM
> 	Subject: RE: wierdness in my security report
> 
> 	I have found the same logs on one of my older builds (4.3 I think).
> The offending MAC address was found to be a Cisco router on my ISP's
> network. I found no solution for it though.
> 	 
> 	Jim Laurenson
> 
> 		-----Original Message-----
> 		From: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
> <mailto:owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Craig Miller
> 		Sent: July 18, 2002 11:47 AM
> 		To: freebsd-security
> 		Subject: wierdness in my security report
> 		
> 		
> 		Anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing the
> following to appear in my security report?
> 		 
> 		 arp: 12.236.220.1 moved from 00:b0:64:b7:6f:54 to
> 00:b0:64:b7:6f:a8 on dc0
> 		> Jul 17 05:47:56 server /kernel: arp: 12.236.220.1 moved
> from 00:b0:64:b7:6f:54 to 00:b0:64:b7:6f:a8 on dc0
> 		> arp: 12.236.220.1 moved from 00:b0:64:b7:6f:a8 to
> 00:b0:64:b7:6f:54 on dc0
> 		> Jul 17 05:47:57 server /kernel: arp: 12.236.220.1 moved
> from 00:b0:64:b7:6f:a8 to 00:b0:64:b7:6f:54 on dc0
> 		
> 		I thought those : delimited fields would be MAC addresses,
> but they don't match the MAC addresses of either of the two cards in my
> free-bsd box.  I have not checked the MAC addresses of the other network
> cards on my network.
> 		 
> 		Also, where does the "server /kernel" name come from.
> "kernel" is not the name I gave my kernel, so I am suspicious.
> 		 
> 		Thanks,
> 		 
> 		--Craig
> 		 
> 

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