On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 02:59:14PM -0400, Bill wrote: > Heya, > > On a 3.7 / i386 box (running dhcp/named) with multiple nic cards: > > arplookup: unable to enter address for 0.0.0.0 > > I have been seeing these messages in my logs for a few days. > > Usually followed by a "last message repeated x times" > > The arp(4) man page says > "An IP received on the interface does not match the network/netmask of > the interface. This indicates a netmask problem." > > Does this mean my default route is somehow bad? I checked the netmask > and it all seems good there - and more importantly it works fine. > > Now, I suspect it is a wifi node that someone misconfigured to the > wrong network, and they have just not gotten out there to fix it yet. > But what could I to track this down if I did have a prime suspect. I > looked through arp -a, but it would not be in there anyway right. How > can I tell which nic this is coming in on? >
That issue is fixed in 3.8. The problem was a "ifconfig $if 0.0.0.0 up" in dhclient-script that was causing a gratious arp for the IP 0.0.0.0. -- :wq Claudio
