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Date:      Mon, 19 Mar 2001 10:12:11 +0530 (IST)
From:      Mohana Krishna Penumetcha <pmk@sasi.com>
To:        Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
Cc:        net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: strange arp packets!!!
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10103191001060.1055-100000@pcs113.sasi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010316102159.B11527@daemon.ninth-circle.org>

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On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:

> -On [20010316 06:25], Mohana Krishna Penumetcha (pmk@sasi.com) wrote:
> >16:41:25.623476 arp who-has 0.0.0.0 tell 10.0.36.130
> >16:41:30.639372 arp who-has 0.0.0.0 tell 10.0.36.130
> >16:41:40.649838 arp who-has 0.0.0.0 tell 10.0.36.130
> >16:41:45.631430 arp who-has 0.0.0.0 tell 10.0.36.130
> >16:41:50.640533 arp who-has 0.0.0.0 tell 10.0.36.130
> >16:42:00.651104 arp who-has 0.0.0.0 tell 10.0.36.130(--> pcs130)
> >
> >i am little confused what this means, since 0.0.0.0 means "this host"? 
> 
> Not necessarily, 0.0.0.0 can also mean default gateway, which is the
> more common use nowadays. 0.0.0.0 for `this host' is an old use IIRC.
>

  i should check the code to see under what conditions the 0.0.0.0 is
used. 

 > >or is it that, it is meant to update  the arp entry corresponding to
> >pcs130 on other hosts in the subnet? in this case, it can as well say
> >"10.0.36.130" instead of "0.0.0.0".
> 
> I am not sure right now, might be because my head's a little foggy.
> 
> What does arp -a and netstat -rn look like on the FreeBSD box and on the
> Linux box?

  i didn't capture all that data, but i think, it is not very difficult to
reproduce the same dump, i will check out for what ip addr, these packets
are generated.

Thanks,
mohan

 > 
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