the arp thread

2002-10-26 Thread Barney Wolff
Ah, the first entry into my procmail block regex from a freebsd list. All the other s**theads are from nanog. Good luck next time, fella. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Annoying ARP warning messages.

2002-10-26 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Saturday, Oct 26, 2002, at 21:36 US/Pacific, Don Bowman wrote: This can also be seen, believe it or not, on a routed network, if you have something like spanning tree protocol which hasn't converged yet, but has been set for rapid convergence (which assumes the path isn't a loop until it disc

Re: Annoying ARP warning messages.

2002-10-26 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Saturday, Oct 26, 2002, at 20:24 US/Pacific, Julian Elischer wrote: Don't get snooty.. the question is :"why do you want to do that? Is it to get more bandwidth? The answer is: None of your business. It was a simple technical question, to which I was given a simple technical answer, which

RE: Annoying ARP warning messages.

2002-10-26 Thread Don Bowman
> From: Julian Elischer [mailto:julian@;elischer.org] (removed as to why have two NICs on the same network, sending for general enlightenment of the list...) This is reasonably common in L2 switched Ethernet. You have a device which segments the traffic just fine with MAC learning. You have the

Re: Annoying ARP warning messages.

2002-10-26 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Kevin Stevens wrote: > > On Saturday, Oct 26, 2002, at 16:20 US/Pacific, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Don Bowman wrote: > > > >> Kevin Stevens wrote: > >>> I have two systems connected through a common network (switch). They > >>> each have two NI

Re: Annoying ARP warning messages.

2002-10-26 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Saturday, Oct 26, 2002, at 16:20 US/Pacific, Julian Elischer wrote: On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Don Bowman wrote: Kevin Stevens wrote: I have two systems connected through a common network (switch). They each have two NICs, with one addressed on one IP network and the second on another. IP wo

Re: Annoying ARP warning messages.

2002-10-26 Thread Don Bowman
This is common with l2 switched networks: the arp is seen everywhere even though the unicast traffic uses the learning mode. --don -Original Message- From: Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Don Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: 'Kevin Stevens' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <

RE: Annoying ARP warning messages.

2002-10-26 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Don Bowman wrote: > Kevin Stevens wrote: > > I have two systems connected through a common network (switch). They > > each have two NICs, with one addressed on one IP network and the second > > on another. IP works fine. My problem is that the kernel keeps > > bitching

Re: Annoying ARP warning messages.

2002-10-26 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Saturday, Oct 26, 2002, at 14:28 US/Pacific, Don Bowman wrote: systcl net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface=0 Gee, why didn't that permutation of keystrokes occur to me? ;) Thanks. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the me

RE: Annoying ARP warning messages.

2002-10-26 Thread Don Bowman
Kevin Stevens wrote: > I have two systems connected through a common network (switch). They > each have two NICs, with one addressed on one IP network and the second > on another. IP works fine. My problem is that the kernel keeps > bitching about seeing the same MAC addresses on both interfa

Annoying ARP warning messages.

2002-10-26 Thread Kevin Stevens
I have two systems connected through a common network (switch). They each have two NICs, with one addressed on one IP network and the second on another. IP works fine. My problem is that the kernel keeps bitching about seeing the same MAC addresses on both interfaces: Oct 26 06:15:03 babelfi

Re: Connecting two LANs via VPN

2002-10-26 Thread Archie Cobbs
Thomas Gielfeldt writes: > I have gotten them all to work, and all hosts can see each other. There's only one >thing which > doesn't work... Broadcast packets... Of course, because broadcast packets are not routed. You might try configuring both sides to be on the same subnet (but with non-confl

Re: Connecting two LANs via VPN

2002-10-26 Thread Julian Elischer
gosh there are almost too many ways to do this.. I use mpd, connected by a UDP tunnel over IPSEC I use mpd for it's multilink capability, and have multiple UDP tunnels, connected via different ISPs, so if one goes down it only degrades my link rather than cutting it.. On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Thomas

Connecting two LANs via VPN

2002-10-26 Thread Thomas Gielfeldt
Hi I'm trying to set up a VPN connection between two freebsd gateways. What I want to do is to setup a connection between the two gateways, so that all the hosts on the two networks are connected to each other, as if they physically were on one network. Below is a schematic of my network setup

Re: Choosing interface for a destination

2002-10-26 Thread Robert Staflin
It really was a newbie question - sorry for the bandwidth. If anyone else wonders, email me and I'll help! /Robert Staflin On lördag, okt 26, 2002, at 23:03 Europe/Stockholm, Robert Staflin wrote: I'm developing an application to set the interface to use for different IP addresses, e.g. if I

Max'ed out mbuf's while being rate shapped...

2002-10-26 Thread Sean Chittenden
I had the lovely privilege of receiving an exorbitantly large amount of traffic that was sent to one host (not a DoS) and the box held up rather well until I slapped a cap on the particular machine. mbuf cluster usage went from around 8K to healthy 65536 in about 15sec. Now that things have levele

Re: panic in 4.7 in close / sbdrop

2002-10-26 Thread David Malone
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 06:25:44PM -0400, Don Bowman wrote: > I have a machine running 4.7. I can panic it by sending a reasonably > high load of tcp open/close from/to it. The trace below is from > a socket from localhost to localhost (sendmail). The max number > of open file descriptors I would h