kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 65.59.233.102

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org
Mon Sep 10 14:03:03 UTC 2012


On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 09:29:44AM -0400, Dominic Blais wrote:
D> Hi,
D> 
D> We have a PPPoE server running FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3 with mpd-5.6. It used to work very well for 6 weeks and now the "Internet traffic" stops almost each day.
D> 
D> Symptoms:
D> 
D> - I still can ssh to the server from the LAN.
D> - The users connected to mpd by PPPoE can't access Internet.
D> - I tried to do a "whois 65.59.233.102" to know where it's from and the whois server doesn't answer probably because the request never get sent.
D> 
D> 
D> I tried to restart mpd, the users are reconnecting but they still can't access the Internet. I need to reboot to recover from that. Note that, each day it happened, it's always the same IP address (65.59.233.102) that's in the error message. That error appears up to 5 times per second.
D> 
D> Actually, this server has only 1 NIC (bge0). It has an IP on that internet and also a vlan interface (vlan0 [pvid 2]) that's used for PPPoE between mpd and the pppoe clients.

I'm not sure that this message is directly related to connectivity problems.

Have you tried common debugging sequence when internet connectivity breaks:
tcpdumping, looking at ARP table, route table, etc?

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Totus tuus, Glebius.


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