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Date:      Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:57:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        CyberPsychotic <fygrave@freenet.bishkek.su>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: arp problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808162254510.21985-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980815133303.16337S-100000@freenet.bishkek.su>

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On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, CyberPsychotic wrote:

>  weird thing has happened here after I played with ethernet wires of my
> BSD box abit. (just took them, disconnected, atttached to other network
> etc). While the rest of machines here were ok, (linux box) BSD machine
> eluminated possible arp problem: it started dumping message " arplookup
> for X.X.X.X fialed: host is not in LAN". while the other machines where
> fine. Could connect to each other with no problem and only X.X.X.X machine
> couldn't connect to my bsd box.

You probably confused the heck out of the network code by moving the
networks around without reifconfiging.  Simply `ifconfig xx0 down;
ifconfig xx0 up' should clear it up.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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