arplookup 0.0.0.0 failed: host is not on local network

Christer Solskogen solskogen at carebears.mine.nu
Mon May 12 20:45:12 UTC 2008


Derek Ragona wrote:

> You may want to do traceroutes from the systems that do find the 0.0.0.0 
> interface.  I would bet you have a default route and/or netmask sending 
> the traffic.  You will get those arp messages if you run two different 
> interfaces on the same system, on the same subnet (not to be confused 
> with running multiple IP's on an interface.)  Arp tries to tie an IP 
> address to a machine address, but if the reverse routing isn't correct 
> you will see these error messages.
> 

A tip from George Davidovich setting the aliases to use netmask to 
0xffffffff seems to fix the problem.

-- 
chs



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