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Date:      Mon, 12 Nov 2001 23:15:33 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: unknown kernel error message
Message-ID:  <20011112231533.F45158@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20011112091413.conrads@home.com>; from conrads@home.com on Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 09:14:13AM -0600
References:  <XFMail.20011112091413.conrads@home.com>

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[This is not really on-topic for -STABLE. CC removed.]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 09:14:13AM -0600, Conrad Sabatier wrote:
> A friend of mine is getting these lately, every time he boots his
> 4.4-STABLE box (I just cvsupped him and built a new world and kernel last
> night to see if it would help; didn't):
> 
> Nov 11 22:36:10 unixpros /kernel: arp: unknown hardware address format
> (0x0800)
> 
> I have no idea where this might be coming from or why.  But his NIC doesn't
> seem to be performing anywhere near up to par.

They would usually be coming from some other device on the
network. Run a,

  $ tcpdump -w arp.pcap 'arp[0:2] == 0x0800'

To catch these. Then have a look,

  $ tcpdump -envvXr arp.pcap

To figure out what machine(s) are making them and to see the rest of
the data in them.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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