From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 17 10:01:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA22561 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:01:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from solar.os.com (craigs@solar.os.com [199.232.136.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA22555 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:01:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from craigs@localhost) by solar.os.com (8.7/8.7.0) id NAA00156; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 13:09:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 13:08:59 -0400 From: Craig Shrimpton Subject: Re: arp info overwritten To: Christoph Kukulies cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199609171531.RAA00369@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > - what does that mean in plain english? Something like a > duplicate IP address? > > From my syslog on a gateway machine (137.226.31.25) : > arp info overwritten for 137.226.31.18 by 00:40:33:2e:e2:ce > arp info overwritten for 137.226.31.18 by 00:00:c0:b3:91:2e > It means you have two Ethernet cards that claim to have the same IP address. That's a no-no. You can have one card with many addresses but not the other way around. -Craig +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Craig Shrimpton | e-mail: craigs@os.com | | Orbit Systems | information: info@os.com | | Worcester, MA 508.753.8776 | http://www.os.com/ | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ Strategic Systems