Re: arp error message

Yeah we can figure that out!


-a

On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 at 13:31, Takashi Inoue <inoue.takashi@nihon-u.ac.jp> wrote:
>
> Hi Chadd and All,
>
> Thanks. I was asleep.
>
> BTW, I wish that a treatment of the endless repeated message
> in any way is implemented in release.
> Dose someone can do this?
>
> Best,
> T.Inoue
>
>
>
> On 2/3/22 04:59, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > Just comment out the AR_LOG line. Use '//', not '#'.
> >
> >
> > -a
> >
> > On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 at 11:17, Takashi Inoue <inoue.takashi@nihon-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I want to ask a favor to you.
> >> It may not concern wireless network directly. I'm sorry for this.
> >> I am using 13-STABLE ISO at 13th Jan.
> >>
> >> I get the following message in dmesg many many times repeatedly, lets
> >> say, every one second.
> >>
> >> arp: packet with invalid ethernet address length 0 received on wlan0
> >>
> >> According to a Google search, the reason of this may be in my network
> >> environment.
> >> But, I cannot change it. So, I want to stop the message by re-compiling
> >> kernel(module).
> >>
> >> I am going to modify /src/sys/netinet/if_ether.c around line 730.
> >> I am thinking just comment out the ARP_LOG function lines, like
> >> ---------------------------------------------------------
> >>          if (hlen != 0 && hlen != ar->ar_hln) {
> >> #               ARP_LOG(LOG_NOTICE,
> >> #                   "packet with invalid %s address length %d received on %s\n",
> >> #                   layer, ar->ar_hln, if_name(ifp));
> >>                  m_freem(m);
> >>                  return;
> >>          }
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> Do I have better to cut(comment out) the whole the if(){} part?
> >> Or, do you have a any better solution to suppress or reduce the message?
> >> Please give me some advice.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> T. Inoue
> >>
>