From owner-freebsd-net Sat Oct 26 20:40:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F39037B404 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 20:40:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (12-232-206-8.client.attbi.com [12.232.206.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 704E643E75 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 20:40:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA15540; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 20:24:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 20:24:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Kevin Stevens Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Annoying ARP warning messages. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Kevin Stevens wrote: > > On Saturday, Oct 26, 2002, at 16:20 US/Pacific, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Don Bowman wrote: > > > >> Kevin Stevens wrote: > >>> I have two systems connected through a common network (switch). They > >>> each have two NICs, with one addressed on one IP network and the > >>> second > >>> on another. IP works fine. My problem is that the kernel keeps > >>> bitching about seeing the same MAC addresses on both interfaces: > > > > well, WHY is it seeing the same MA addresses on both interfaces? > > Because they're on the same network, as described above. Don't get snooty.. the question is :"why do you want to do that? Is it to get more bandwidth? > > > Is this your attempt to get more throughput using 2 logical nets > > through > > the same switch? > > No. ok, then..... "why?" > > > I'd fork out the extra $5 for switched cable and > > connet them together directly and bypass the switch (for teh 2nd link) > > (probably faster too) > > Then you'd be as unsuccessful at meeting my requirements as you've been > unresponsive to the question I asked. Well since you don;t SAY what your requirements are, I can only try guess.. and as you have now said hta tit is not the only valid reason I can think of, I can;t think of any other reason to do what you are trying to do. > > Fortunately Mr. Bowman promptly gave me the answer below, which is > exactly what was needed. which is fine but I'm stilll puzzled as to why someone would want to do that if it's not to get extra bandwidth. hmm maybe redundancy? but then you'd need an extra switch as well... > > KeS > > >>> > >>> Oct 26 06:15:03 babelfish /kernel: arp: 192.168.168.101 is on em0 but > >>> got reply from 00:30:65:00:e6:e6 on xl0 > >> > >> systcl net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface=0 > >> > >> --don (don@sandvine.com www.sandvine.com p2p) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message