From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 30 12:38:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ausxc10.us.dell.com (ausxc10.us.dell.com [143.166.98.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C54737B417 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:38:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by ausxc10.us.dell.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 14:27:57 -0600 Message-ID: From: Dung_Nguyen@Dell.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: kernel arp messages? Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 14:37:11 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, My FreeBSD 4.4 has the following log messages and I could not figure out how this happens and what it means. Anytime this event occurs, the internet connection is dropped and then back to normal again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- # dmesg -a ... Fri Nov 30 12:51:19 CST 2001 arp: 66.68.32.1 moved from 00:04:dd:5d:84:54 to 00:04:dd:5d:84:8c on fxp0 Nov 30 13:20:09 nano /kernel: arp: 66.68.32.1 moved from 00:04:dd:5d:84:54 to 00:04:dd:5d:84:8c on fxp0 arp: 66.68.32.1 moved from 00:04:dd:5d:84:8c to 00:04:dd:5d:84:54 on fxp0 Nov 30 13:20:10 nano /kernel: arp: 66.68.32.1 moved from 00:04:dd:5d:84:8c to 00:04:dd:5d:84:54 on fxp0 arp: 66.68.32.1 moved from 00:04:dd:5d:84:54 to 00:04:dd:5d:84:8c on fxp0 arp: 66.68.32.1 moved from 00:04:dd:5d:84:8c to 00:04:dd:5d:84:54 on fxp0 Nov 30 13:21:09 nano /kernel: arp: 66.68.32.1 moved from 00:04:dd:5d:84:54 to 00:04:dd:5d:84:8c on fxp0 ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I believe 66.68.32.1 is the Road Runner gateway IP address and 00:04:dd:5d:84:54 is a correct MAC address. This problem never occurs on 4.0 before I switch to 4.4, but it now also happens on FreeBSD 4.0. Thanks, Dung Nguyen (512) 723-5807 dung_nguyen@dell.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message