Re: arp messages

[Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@campus.iztacala.unam.mx>]

> Anyone know the cause of the following messages in dmesg output ?
> arplookup: unable to enter address for w.x.y.z
> Box is x86, 2.8, running ipf and ipnat.

I get very often similar messages with a setup such as two separate
subnetworks coexist on the same Ethernet segment; your machine is looking
at the packets that are for it, but cannot understand why an origin
address of w.x.y.z is in its wire, when there should only be w.x.v.z
there.

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           Gunnar Wolf    gwolf@campus.iztacala.unam.mx
     Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Iztacala
   Jefatura de Sección de Desarrollo y Admon. de Sistemas en Red
       Departamento de Seguridad en Computo - DGSCA - UNAM
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