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Date:      Fri, 19 May 2000 11:17:07 -0400
From:      Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.0-Stable Kernel Error?
Message-ID:  <20000519111707.A18176@pir.net>
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
References:  <4.3.1.2.20000519085332.00acec50@mail.udel.edu>

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John <papalia@udel.edu> 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.

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pir                  pir@pir.net                    pir@net.tufts.edu



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