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From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Turning of annoying "Unknown packer"-messages
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:41:57 +1000
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To: Vincent Ossewaarde <vincento@knoware.nl>
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Vincent Ossewaarde wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a problem with my freebsd-systems. I have hooked up a Cisco
> 2500 which has an ethernet-interface with three IP-addresses (1
> 'normal', 2 aliased).
> 
> On my FreeBSD-boxes I keep receiving messages like "Unknown packet
> from unknown router xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx". In fact that isn't such a

Have you got the "Cisco Discovery Protocol" running?  I think it might
be enabled by default!  You can turn it off via "no cdp"

> problem (my monitor doesn't complain displaying them), but my
> /var/log/messages is getting huge.
> 
> How can I turn them off? Anyone dealt with this before?

You can control there syslog puts things via /etc/syslog.conf.  If you
don't want to see these messages, don't log them or else send them off
to /dev/null !

> 
> Vincent