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Date:      Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:25:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Bob K <melange@yip.org>
To:        Ted Sikora <tsikora@powerusersbbs.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: arp
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009242123130.49747-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <39CEA5E3.D1B1FEF8@powerusersbbs.com>

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On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Ted Sikora wrote:

> Bob K wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Ted Sikora wrote:
> > 
> > > > Ok, here's a question:  Is the MAC address of the ethernet card in your
> > > > main server/gateway 00:10:b5:6c:33:83 ?  (look at the output of ifconfig
> > > > -a, or ipconfig /all if it's NT)  If it is, then that would point to
> > > > something very screwy happening with FreeBSD.  If it isn't, then examine
> > > > all the systems connected to the hub that's connected to dc0.  Find the
> > > > one with the MAC address of 00:10:b5:6c:33:83 and fix its IP
> > > > configuration.
> > > >
> > > This is getting screwy. That address does not exist at all on any
> > > machine. The other server same thing. I am using an ADSL Speed Stream
> > > ethernet modem and a Lancity cable modem on each one. Could the address
> > > be these devices? How can I extract the HW address from them? Funny it
> > > was perfect before last week's
> > > buildworld. I do one every month on all the machines.
> > 
> > Who knows?  Anyway, odds are that the ethernet ID's will be printed on the
> > bottom, accompanied by a bar code.  If not, well, you'd probably have to
> > log into them to find out, or use SNMP (often the default read community
> > is 'public').
> >
> It must be the ADSL modems or 'Carnivore'<g>. I ruled out the routers
> and LanCity.

Check if the MAC address matches any of the known public IPs of those
devices.  Look in the output of arp -a to get the list.

-- 
Bob <melange@yip.org>
"I'm Canadian, and I can't photocopy my ass
			without the RCMP coming after me."
						- bigkahuna@scowling.net



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