> From: John Baldwin <[email protected]> > Date: 1999-06-15 16:23:24 -0700 > To: "Daniel J. O'Connor" <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: DHCP, arp and de0 > Cc: [email protected] > In-reply-to: <[email protected]> > X-Priority: 3 (Normal) > Delivered-to: [email protected] > X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD > X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > On 13-Jun-99 Daniel J. O'Connor wrote: > > Hi, > > I have tried getting my system to use DHCP on my local network, but I'm > > having > > trouble. > > If I don't use DHCP everything works fine, but if I use DHCP I get the > > following messages appearing in my log file when I use ESD, and try and ping > > my LAN IP. > > Jun 13 17:35:21 guppy /kernel: arplookup 127.0.0.1 failed: could not allocate > > llinfo > > Jun 13 17:35:21 guppy /kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for > > 127.0.0.1rt I'm not sure this is relevant, but the loopback address should *not* be fed to ARP. That's attached to the loopback interface (lo0), and shouldn't be seen on any wire. Could be your config is seriously fouled up.
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