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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.oru.edu!news.IAEhv.nl!gmv.es!btnet-feed3!unlisys!fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: arplookup ERROR Date: 31 May 1997 21:15:37 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5mq4dp$d83@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <buzzardw.865010256@tempermental> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42096 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3469 buzzardw@tempermental.cbl.umces.edu (Bryce Buzzard) wrote: > May 23 12:55:34 machinename /kernel: arplookup ip.address failed: host is not on l > ocal network I think this happens whenever an ARP broadcast happens on your wire for an IP address where you don't have an ethernet interface for. This can (and certainly will) happen if your wire carries more than one IP network. The message is annoying but harmless. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j