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Date:      Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:43:31 -0800 (PST)
From:      yen-po wang <yen867@yahoo.com>
To:        Duncan Anker <d.anker@au.darkbluesea.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: arp: link address is broadcast for IP address??
Message-ID:  <20030108024331.74510.qmail@web20708.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <1041990212.16769.94.camel@duncan.au.darkbluesea.com>

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But there is no machine in 192.168.1.6
My gateway is in 192.168.6.254
other machines in 192.168.0.x 192.168.1.x .3.x .6.x
.30.x

so I can't use 255.255.255.0


--- Duncan Anker <d.anker@au.darkbluesea.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 11:40, yen-po wang wrote:
> > oh~ sorry...
> > netmask is 255.255.0.0 not 192.168.0.0
> > 
> > I mean netmask in 255.255.0.0 and got the message 
> > arp: link address is broadcast for IP  
> > address192.168.1.6!
> 
> Ah, that's different. Well, is there anything else
> on your network using
> that address? 192.168.1.6 will be on the same
> network as your machine.
> If you set the netmask to 255.255.255.0 it will no
> longer be the same
> network and therefore shouldn't continue to happen.
> 
> Why it does this in the first place, I am not sure.
> 
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