Stop this from clogging DMESG

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Apr 2 08:26:16 PST 2003


In the last episode (Apr 02), W. J. Williams said:
> arp: 192.168.0.2 is on lo0 but got reply from 00:d0:b7:b7:66:eb on fxp1
> 
> Hi, how do I stop this line from appearing 50,000,000 times per day
> in my DMESG output.  I am sure it has something to do with the two
> nics I am running on this box.
> 
> ******************************************
> 
> fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 0xfffff800 broadcast 192.168.7.255
> fxp1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255

You have overlapping networks, for one.  

fxp0's network range is 192.168.0.0 -> 192.168.7.255
fxp1's network range is 192.168.1.0 -> 192.168.1.255

The 192.168.1/24 subnet is accessible to both cards, so the fxp1
interface is redundant.  Try removing the card completely.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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