Simple Routing

[eberkut]

> I just set-up a simple router under FreeBSD 4.9, everything works fine
> but
> if I check my logs I have a lot of line similar to this:
>
> Nov 19 22:00:20 Blah /kernel: arp: 192.168.1.1 is on lnc0 but got reply
> from [some mac address] on lnc1
>
> The IP 192.168.1.1 Is a gateway
>
> What is the cause of this message ?

hmm it means you have two interfaces connected to the same subnet. AFAIK
it's nothing but annoying. You can disable these log messages like this :

# sysctl -w net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface=0

--ebk
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