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Date:      Wed, 04 Sep 1996 15:26:50 -0400
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
To:        Paul Walsh <paul@nation-net.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: arp info overwritten 
Message-ID:  <23012.841865210@orion.webspan.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Sep 1996 10:22:41 BST." <322D4A61.76AA@nation-net.com> 

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Paul Walsh wrote in message ID
<322D4A61.76AA@nation-net.com>:
> Is this message anything to worry about?
> The 2 IPs are machines in our class C.
> 
>  arp info overwritten for 194.159.125.100 by 00:05:02:44:5f:d1
>  arp info overwritten for 194.159.125.110 by 00:05:02:54:3f:54
> 
> Thanks, Paul Walsh.

Basically, one IP -> MAC translation was stored in the routing table,
and then the machine received a differing version from a different MAC
address, so it prints the warning as it's most commonly machines which
are trying (illegally) to share the same IP address.

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info



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