arplookup 192.168.1.254 failed: host is not on local network

[Mark Edwards]

On Mar 1, 2005, at 12:53 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

>>>> Looking on the net, I found the following suggestion, which does 
>>>> cure
>>>> the errors:
>>>>
>>>> /sbin/route add -net 192.168.1.254 -netmask 255.255.255.0 
>>>> -interface 1
>>>>
>>>> My question is, is that the proper way to deal with this?
>>>
>>> It's not bad.  I would use -host instead of -net and -netmask, and it
>>> will fail if the DHCP server ever changes its address, but what you
>>> are doing is is working and fairly likely to stay that way.
>>
>> How would you phrase the command?  I just tried -host and couldn't get
>> it to work.
>
> e.g.,
> route add -host 172.10.212.2 -interface bge0

I tried that syntax and I get errors like this:

Mar  1 13:12:37 lilbuddy /kernel: arp: 00:0d:72:d7:d9:a1 attempts to 
modify permanent entry for 192.168.1.254 on ep1

If I use the -net -netmask syntax I don't get the errors.

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Mark Edwards
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