Re: arp error message

Hi Chadd and All,

Thanks. I was asleep.

BTW, I wish that a treatment of the endless repeated message
in any way is implemented in release.
Dose someone can do this?

Best,
T.Inoue



On 2/3/22 04:59, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Just comment out the AR_LOG line. Use '//', not '#'.
> 
> 
> -a
> 
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 at 11:17, Takashi Inoue <inoue.takashi@nihon-u.ac.jp> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I want to ask a favor to you.
>> It may not concern wireless network directly. I'm sorry for this.
>> I am using 13-STABLE ISO at 13th Jan.
>>
>> I get the following message in dmesg many many times repeatedly, lets
>> say, every one second.
>>
>> arp: packet with invalid ethernet address length 0 received on wlan0
>>
>> According to a Google search, the reason of this may be in my network
>> environment.
>> But, I cannot change it. So, I want to stop the message by re-compiling
>> kernel(module).
>>
>> I am going to modify /src/sys/netinet/if_ether.c around line 730.
>> I am thinking just comment out the ARP_LOG function lines, like
>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>>          if (hlen != 0 && hlen != ar->ar_hln) {
>> #               ARP_LOG(LOG_NOTICE,
>> #                   "packet with invalid %s address length %d received on %s\n",
>> #                   layer, ar->ar_hln, if_name(ifp));
>>                  m_freem(m);
>>                  return;
>>          }
>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Do I have better to cut(comment out) the whole the if(){} part?
>> Or, do you have a any better solution to suppress or reduce the message?
>> Please give me some advice.
>>
>> Best,
>> T. Inoue
>>