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To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
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Subject: Re: arpresolve errors 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 19 Nov 96 19:32:51 PST."
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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 21:52:13 PST
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.3.91.961120143155.8206K-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> you wr
ite:
>Are messages like the one below indicative of mbuf problems, or something 
>else?

Generally they're indicative of routing problems.

>"arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 203.x.y.49"

What's the routing table look like for 203.x.y.49?

>A check through the messages file 
>shows that it only happens to CSLIP links which are gateways to remote 
>nets/subnets.

Are you using gated?  gated likes to add bogus host routes which confuse
the routing table.  There's code in 2.2 that handles this.

  Bill