From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 19 8:17:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [209.192.237.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF3CE37BEAA for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 08:17:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 12soWR-000533-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 19 May 2000 11:17:07 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 11:17:07 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0-Stable Kernel Error? Message-ID: <20000519111707.A18176@pir.net> Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <4.3.1.2.20000519085332.00acec50@mail.udel.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000519085332.00acec50@mail.udel.edu>; from papalia@udel.edu on Fri, May 19, 2000 at 09:00:45AM -0400 X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John probably said: > May 18 12:55:17 merlin /kernel: arp: unknown hardware address format (0x0800) > It's showed up 3 times in the past 36 or so hours, but not at any point in > time that I can narrow it down to occurring near/after/during any specific > system event. > > Any idea what would be causing the error and how to go about fixing it? My guess would be, apart from a possible bug, that you have a broken network card on your network spewing bad packets. Previous OS version might not have reported them. Try tcpdump to catch them ? Might be able to limit the display to packets not of type ether. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message