From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 15 18:54:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail-out1.apple.com (mail-out1.apple.com [17.254.0.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5454214C0A for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:54:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from justin@walker3.apple.com) Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (A17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out1.apple.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA12956 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:54:43 -0700 Received: from scv2.apple.com (scv2.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (mailgate1.apple.com- SMTPRS 2.0.15) with ESMTP id for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:54:42 -0700 Received: from walker3.apple.com (walker3.apple.com [17.219.24.201]) by scv2.apple.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA38412 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:54:40 -0700 Received: by walker3.apple.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id SAA00658 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:54:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199906160154.SAA00658@walker3.apple.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RE: DHCP, arp and de0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:54:40 -0700 From: "Justin C. Walker" Reply-To: justin@apple.com X-Mailer: by Apple MailViewer (2.105.dev) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: John Baldwin > Date: 1999-06-15 16:23:24 -0700 > To: "Daniel J. O'Connor" > Subject: RE: DHCP, arp and de0 > Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > In-reply-to: > X-Priority: 3 (Normal) > Delivered-to: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD > X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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 -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large * Institute for General Semantics | Manager, CoreOS Networking | Men are from Earth. Apple Computer, Inc. | Women are from Earth. 2 Infinite Loop | Deal with it. Cupertino, CA 95014 | *-------------------------------------*-------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message