Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:47:54 +0200 From: Mike Jackson <mj@sci.fi> To: Darryl Hoar <darryl@osborne-ind.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/log/messages question Message-ID: <20040316204754.GB6815@gentoo.pp.jippii.fi> In-Reply-To: <010e01c40b90$76b18c80$0701a8c0@darryl> References: <010e01c40b90$76b18c80$0701a8c0@darryl>
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Darryl Hoar (darryl@osborne-ind.com) wrote: > Greetings, > I have a 4.4-stable box configured as my firewall > running IPFilter and doing nat and routing to > the internet. > > I keep getting: > > Mar 16 13:10:09 darryl /kernel: arplookup 10.2.2.2 failed: host is not on > local network > > in my /var/log/messages file. It is coming from my DSL facing interface. I > used ethereal > to capture packets and determine the MAC address. Turns out to be a "vendor > testpoint" > on some OSI gear the ISP is using. They cannot correct this problem. > > ARP comes way before IPFilter, therefore I do not believe it can be > filtered. > > Is there anything I can do to prevent these warnings/errors from clogging up > my > log files ? This will happen if you have a public static ip address on your freebsd box, connected to an adsl router but the adsl router's lan interface is on a different network. This situation primarily occurs when you turn an adsl router into an adsl modem, e.g. you enable ppp half-bridge mode. I pipe those, and other messages to a virtual terminal, like this: syslog.conf -- *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice /dev/ttyv3 BR, -- mike
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