Torsten, Thanks for responding to my question. I know about this specific sysctl on FreeBSD. Used this one on pfSense as well. The issue is that this one, or functional similar seems not available on OpenBSD.
Maybe someone else has run into this before and found a way? Marco PC > Op 8 nov. 2017, om 16:44 heeft torsten <tors...@cnc-london.net> het volgende > geschreven: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf >> Of OpenBSD >> Sent: 08 November 2017 15:44 >> To: misc@openbsd.org >> Subject: Suppessing logging of arp movement messages >> >> hello all, >> >> I have finally build an internet gateway with OpenBSD 6.2 (AMD64), >> including pf and IPSec. Great stuff. >> Now I am seeing a lot of arp movement, that I know are caused by >> Apple's Bonjour Sleep Proxy. >> >> Nov 8 00:00:27 gatekeeper /bsd: arp info overwritten for 192.168.20.99 >> by 00:46:ab:ba:19:87 on vmx0 Nov 8 00:00:58 gatekeeper /bsd: arp info >> overwritten for 192.168.20.99 by 9c:ab:3b:ca:fe:99 on vmx0 Nov 8 >> 00:01:57 gatekeeper /bsd: arp info overwritten for 192.168.20.99 by >> 00:46:ab:ba:19:87 on vmx0 Nov 8 00:02:04 gatekeeper /bsd: arp info >> overwritten for 192.168.20.99 by 9c:ab:3b:ca:fe:99 on vmx0 Nov 8 >> 00:02:35 gatekeeper /bsd: arp info overwritten for 192.168.20.99 by >> 00:46:ab:ba:19:87 on vmx0 Nov 8 00:03:28 gatekeeper /bsd: arp info >> overwritten for 192.168.20.99 by 9c:ab:3b:ca:fe:99 on vmx0 Nov 8 >> 00:03:42 gatekeeper /bsd: arp info overwritten for 192.168.20.99 by >> 00:46:ab:ba:19:87 on vmx0 Nov 8 00:04:27 gatekeeper /bsd: arp info >> overwritten for 192.168.20.99 by 9c:ab:3b:ca:fe:99 on vmx0 >> >> These messages are repeating every 15-30 seconds for Apple devices like >> laptops that are in standby (sleep mode). >> >> On pfSense and FreeBSD you have a sysctl: >> net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_movements >> when set to zero it will no longer log the messages. >> >> Discussions can be found on internet dating back to 2010, but no >> solution has been provided for what I could find. >> I have not yet found any sysctl in OpenBSD to do the same. Did I miss >> something or does OpenBSD have any trick to not log these messages. >> Currently these messages are filling up the logs /var/run/dmesg.boot >> and /var/log/messages. >> >> Marco PC > > Mi Marco > In freebsd is is usually done with > sysctl net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_movements=0 > > and I guess this applies to openbsd too. > T >
