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From: Karl Wiebe <karl@dnai.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What is llinfo?
Date: 13 Dec 1996 19:43:06 GMT
Organization: DNAI ( Direct Network Access )
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bob@nemesis.its.berkeley.edu (bob prohaska) wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>My 2.1 system is starting to report
>
>arplookup 128.32.172.122 failed; could not allocate llinfo
>
>128.32.172.122 is a host ethernetted to my FBSD box. The
>connection between the two is not working, and I suspect
>this error message is telling me what's wrong, but there's
>no mention of llinfo in the arp man pages. Can anybody give
>me a start?
Well the real "reference" is /usr/src/sys/netinet/if_ether.c,
line 290 or so ;-)
However, the error you are getting is likely to be due to a
bad ethernet card on your LAN, generating bogus ARP and running
your FreeBSD box out of space in its ARP table. I've seen this
before, and that is what it meant, so that's my guess here.
Are you doing anything fancy on this LAN segment? Multicast? Strange
old hardware? Scads of hosts on one physical ethernet?
[ posted and mailed ]
--Karl
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== Karl Wiebe == karl@dnai.com ==
"Order is a form of repetition compulsion" --Freud
"Order is a form of repetition compulsion" --Freud
"Order is a form of repetition compulsion" --Freud