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Date:      Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:59:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        wayne@crb-web.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: what is this arp message??
Message-ID:  <199907200159.VAA01321@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990718224610.7186A-100000@crb.crb-web.com> from Wayne Cuddy at "Jul 18, 99 10:48:41 pm"

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Wayne Cuddy wrote,
> Jul 18 21:57:51 wc2 /kernel.fw: arp: 00:60:3e:07:90:80 attempts to modify
> permanent entry for 207.196.43.1 on ed0
> 
> 
> There doesn't appear to be anything wrong with network operation... Are these
> serious errors/warnings?

That depends. Looks like a machine somewhere thinks its interface with
Ethernet address 00:60:3e:07:90:80 has an IP address of
207.196.43.1. However, your machine wc2 has a permanent entry in its
ARP table for 207.196.43.1 that is different (lemme guess,207.196.43.1
is [one of] wc2's interface[s]).

If all seems well and this is an innocent misconfiguration, the
problem _might_ be serious. Other machines may be more confused and
the machine erroniously claiming to own 207.196.43.1 is definiately
confused. This should be fixed.

If this is a malicious attack, i.e. someone is trying to masquerade as
one of your machines, this could be serious and needs immediate
investigation. 
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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