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Date:      Tue, 1 Dec 1998 14:09:28 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Riccardo Veraldi <riccardo@righi.ml.org>, Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: TCP/IP stack bug or ether dev bug ?? (fwd)
Message-ID:  <19981201140928.A69548@emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812011915530.1557-100000@righi.ml.org>; from "Riccardo Veraldi" on Tue Dec  1 19:18:08 GMT 1998
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812011915530.1557-100000@righi.ml.org>

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In the last episode (Dec 01), Riccardo Veraldi said:
> it's really weird my netstat show an host in the routing table that
> is not in rc scripts... is possible that this host is trying to do
> something strange like... getting my IP address or something ??
> someone can have an idea on why my routing table is like that ??
> Routing tables
> 
> Internet:
> Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use     Netif
> default            137.204.49.254     UGSc       55      265      ep0
> 127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          2     6457      lo0
> 137.204.49/24      link#2             UC          0        0      ep0
> 137.204.49.17      0:20:af:b7:21:d9   UHLW        3   140397      lo0
> 137.204.49.30      0:60:8c:92:ae:a2   UHLW        0       10      ep0
> 137.204.49.254     aa:0:4:0:1a:95     UHLW       56        0      ep0
> 
> my host is 137.204.49.17
> the other 137.204.49.30  is a PC on the same lan and I do not know why it
> is in the routing table noone added it and it is not in rc scripts as
> a default route or alternative route path, so I do not understand
> can someone help me ?

On most other Unixes, these entries would appear in the arp table
(viewable with arp -a).  On FreeBSD, the arp table and the routing
table are the same, so a "netstat -r" shows arp entries too.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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