How to ignore arp error message

[Dancho Penev]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:14:24AM +1000, Carl Morley wrote:
>From: "Carl Morley" <bsdmn at webize.com.au>
>To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
>Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 07:14:24 +1000
>Subject: How to ignore arp error message
>
>Hi,
>I have a server on a network which is inhabited by an Intel rack-mount
>box running Win2k.  The Intel server has got two of it's NIC's 'teamed'
>- the Intel redundant NIC method.  
>
>Problem is that to the FreeBSD box, it looks like the MAC address of
>that IP address keeps changing, so I get endless kernel messages like
>the ones below.  You can see the swap from 3a to 3b, and can probably
>guess the next in the sequence!  Yeah, back to 3a....
>
>arp: 10.1.21.80 moved from 00:03:47:f1:b8:3b to 00:03:47:f1:b8:3a on
>fxp2
>arp: 10.1.21.80 moved from 00:03:47:f1:b8:3a to 00:03:47:f1:b8:3b on
>fxp2
>
>1.  Does anyone know if my fellow admin (who looks after the Intel box)
>has configured incorrectly?  Or is this a symptom of all 'teamed' NIC's?
>2.  If nothing can be done on the Intel box, is it possible to ignore
>these messages?

# sysctl net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_movements=0

>
>Cheers,
>Carl.
>
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Regards,
Dancho Penev