arp: XXX is on rl0 but got reply from ...

Andrei Iarus poni1111 at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 26 07:44:04 PST 2006



--- Lowell Gilbert
<freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:

> Andrei Iarus <poni1111 at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > I have read a lot about this error message, but I
> have another
> > questions: What actually happens when this error
> occures? I mean what
> > can this error lead to? Is it enough to switch the
> specific sysctl
> > variable to stop the error (and all it can lead
> to)?  I dont think so,
> > then: Is the blocking of some of those packets the
> best solution to
> > this problem? (In my case, the problem is because
> the 2 NICs are
> > connected to the same network through the same
> switch).
> 
> Turn off one of these NICs; there's not real reason
> to do that
> anyway. 
> 



The problem is that I really need both NICs up, I need
 them for NAT, the problem is that I dont really have
another posibility to connet the computers behind the
FreeBSD machine (that will be connected through the
FreeBSD machine to internet) then using the same
physical media. Thank you for your advice

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