Date: 08 Feb 2003 09:46:07 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: jkuan@rogers.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: arp: unknown hw addr format Message-ID: <44of5mn840.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20030207223106.GA96581@nyo.gotdns.org> References: <20030207223106.GA96581@nyo.gotdns.org>
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Kong-Jei Kuan <jkuan@nyo.gotdns.org> writes: > I am running freebsd 4.7 as my gateway to the internet. > The box has two network cards and is doing nat and dhcp/d. > Everything seems to be fine except every now and then(on average > at least once per day) I got this message: > > arp: unknown hardware address format (0x0800) > > what might be the cause of this? Some other piece of hardware is generating packets with a hardware address type that isn't known to the FreeBSD networking stack. In fact, it's a bogus value; something is getting bytes into the wrong order. At some point I figured out what piece of my ISP's gear was doing this on my own link, but I've now forgotten. There's nothing wrong, and nothing you can do about it (well, you could hide the message, but it isn't really worth the effort). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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