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Date:      Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:54:40 -0700
From:      "Justin C. Walker" <justin@apple.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RE: DHCP, arp and de0
Message-ID:  <199906160154.SAA00658@walker3.apple.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990613182527.darius@dons.net.au>

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> From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
> Date: 1999-06-15 16:23:24 -0700
> To: "Daniel J. O'Connor" <darius@dons.net.au>
> Subject: RE: DHCP, arp and de0
> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
> In-reply-to: <XFMail.990613182527.darius@dons.net.au>
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> On 13-Jun-99 Daniel J. O'Connor wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have tried getting my system to use DHCP on my local network,  
but I'm
> > having
> > trouble.
> > If I don't use DHCP everything works fine, but if I use DHCP I  
get the
> > following messages appearing in my log file when I use ESD, and  
try and ping
> > my LAN IP.
> > Jun 13 17:35:21 guppy /kernel: arplookup 127.0.0.1 failed: could  
not allocate
> > llinfo
> > Jun 13 17:35:21 guppy /kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 
> > 127.0.0.1rt
   I'm not sure this is relevant, but the loopback address should  
*not* be fed to ARP.  That's attached to the loopback interface  
(lo0), and shouldn't be seen on any wire.  Could be your config is  
seriously fouled up.

Regards,

Justin

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