weird arp issues

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Sun Jun 4 04:16:30 PDT 2006


Subhi S Hashwa wrote:
> Jun  3 21:14:58 nile kernel: arp_rtrequest: bad gateway 193.19.XXX.1 (!AF_LINK)
[ ... ]
> 21:23:08 [root at nile ~]# netstat -rn|grep 193.19.XXX.1
> 193.19.XXX.1       193.19.XXX.1       UHLW        1        4    lo0 =>
> 193.19.XXX.1/32    link#1             UC          0        0    em0

I would gather that you've got the 193.19.XXX.1 IP assigned to lo0 rather than 
to a real interface, only you can't ARP over the loopback.  Don't do that, 
leave lo0 assigned to 127.0.0.1 & ::1 if using IPv6.

-- 
-Chuck


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