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Date:      Mon, 16 Sep 2002 09:20:29 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Dan Larsson <dl@tyfon.net>
To:        Gerd Knops <gerti@bitart.com>
Cc:        Chris Byrnes <chris__byrnes@hotmail.com>, <questions@freebsd.org>, <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: arplookup xx.xxx.xx.xxx failed: host is not on local network
Message-ID:  <20020916091641.G27630-100000@hq1.tyfon.net>
In-Reply-To: <BF15F58E-C943-11D6-80F8-00039363AEBE@bitart.com>

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On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Gerd Knops wrote:

|
| On Sunday, Sep 15, 2002, at 14:08 US/Central, Chris Byrnes wrote:
|
| > My /var/log/messages is being filled, non-stop, by these errors looped:
| >
| > Sep 15 13:41:28 servername /kernel: arplookup xx.xxx.xx.xxx failed:
| > host is not on local network
| > Sep 15 13:41:28 servername /kernel: arplookup xx.xxx.xx.xxx failed:
| > host is not on local network
| >
| > After doing some reading, I've already issued, "sysctl -w
| > net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface=0" thinking that would fix the
| > problem.  Unfortunately, it has not.
| >
| > Any ideas?

Misconfigured routes will do this too. Check your routingtable for routes
which you don't have a directly connected gateway.

| I see those too, but only if sshd is running. Maybe some kind of attack
| attempt?



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