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Date:      Tue, 22 Aug 2000 02:58:37 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Janko van Roosmalen <janko@compuserve.com>
To:        "Larry Skarpness Jr." <larry@chainsoft.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ARP issues with 2 or more multi-homed interfaces on same physical LAN
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10008220246190.2305-100000@parmenides.utp.net>
In-Reply-To: <001901c00bcf$df9b0bf0$0a00a8c0@chainsoft.com>

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On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Larry Skarpness Jr. wrote:
>  
> Sometimes it is necessary to place two or more network cards in the same
> machine and have them wired to the same physical LAN.  There could be
> several reason's for doing this.  After researching this problem it is
> apparent that others have made the same explicit decision to do so.  This
> causes frequent messages to appear in the console and log like...
>     /kernel: arp:192.168.0.20 is on dc0 but got reply from 00:e0:98:71:63:fd
> on ed0
> 

Normally a message like this usually means than 2 NIC's have the same IP
number or respond to the same IP number.
All NIC's should have a different IP number, even if they are in the same
hosts. In the troubleshooting chapter of Craig Hunt's "TCP/IP Network
Administration" a similar incident is handled and solved.
The first 3 bytes of the MAC indicate the manufacturer of the card
"00:e0:98". You can download the "Ethernet vendor list" from www.ieee.org
(oui.txt IIRC).

Janko



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