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Date:      Wed, 17 Oct 2001 22:55:25 -0800
From:      Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: arp: <some ether addr> is using my IP address 0.0.0.0!  ??!?!?
Message-ID:  <20011018065526.F3D4DC8@nebula.anchoragerescue.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110171211230.65297-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110171211230.65297-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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On Wednesday 17 October 2001 11:11 am, Julian Elischer wrote:
> I've seen this when DHCP fails to allocate an address.
>
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Jose M. Alcaide wrote:
> > After rebuilding the kernel two days ago (Oct 15), I am getting lots of
> > messages like these:
> >
> > arp: 00:30:65:de:99:32 is using my IP address 0.0.0.0!
> > arp: 00:0a:27:b0:a7:06 is using my IP address 0.0.0.0!
> > arp: 00:30:65:d1:2f:cc is using my IP address 0.0.0.0!
> > arp: 00:30:65:e9:57:5e is using my IP address 0.0.0.0!
> >
> > and so on.
> >
> > Neither ifconfig(8) nor arp(8) show anything unusual.
> >
> > Somebody reported this problem about two weeks ago, but there were no
> > answers. Any ideas?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > JMA
> > --

I'm having the exact same problem. I connect to a large subnet  /12 and I'm 
getting flooded with these. This just started about a week ago. I'm also not 
using DHCP. Any way of blocking this short of turning off all kernel messages?

Beech

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