From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 14 12: 1:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from quebec.procergs.com.br (quebec.procergs.com.br [200.198.128.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0ACA37B419 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:01:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [172.28.6.101]) by quebec.procergs.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F26DF0679; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:01:33 -0300 (BRT) Subject: Re: 802.11b and arp From: Marcelo Leal To: Stephen Beitzel Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020314081730.B58421-100000@mumble.foobie.net> References: <20020314081730.B58421-100000@mumble.foobie.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 14 Mar 2002 17:00:40 +0000 Message-Id: <1016125241.5759.7.camel@ws-tor-004> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, when i was working with wireless lan, i was crazy with it too... the arp address was moved from xxxxx to yyyyyy... then i posted a question in one mailing list too... arp moved?? but, without answers... i did use tcpdump for debug.. and do not note any problem... then i forgot it. On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 16:30, Stephen Beitzel wrote: > I've got an 802.11b access point on my internal LAN, and it seems to be > working fine, but my laptop with the 802.11b card seems to be causing some > kind of intermittent error. Every day, I get a couple messages like this > in /etc/messages: > > > arp: 10.0.0.8 moved from 00:02:dd:30:4a:e2 to 00:02:dd:30:0a:00 on rl0 > > Mar 13 06:45:51 mumble /kernel: arp: 10.0.0.8 moved from 00:02:dd:30:4a:e2 to 00:02:dd:30:0a:00 on rl0 > > arp: 10.0.0.8 moved from 00:02:dd:30:0a:00 to 00:02:dd:30:4a:e2 on rl0 > > Mar 13 06:45:55 mumble /kernel: arp: 10.0.0.8 moved from 00:02:dd:30:0a:00 to 00:02:dd:30:4a:e2 on rl0 > > arplookup 10.0.216.8 failed: host is not on local network > > Mar 13 08:54:00 mumble /kernel: arplookup 10.0.216.8 failed: host is not on local network > > I looked in the archives of freebsd-questions, and I found someone else's > question about the "host is not on local network" answered with what > amounted to, "you've got your DNS stuff configured improperly -- go learn > about DNS, it's outside the scope of this list". (Whereas in my case I > believe it's something to do with the way the Windows DHCP client works; > if you care to hear more about it, contact me.) > > So my question really isn't about that. I'm more interested in the notices > that the wireless card seems to be switching hardware addresses. Does this > seem normal to everyone, and if it is, can I tell the kernel not to bother > me with stuff that's supposed to happen? > > Thanks, > > Stephen Beitzel > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message