Re: ARP packets
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Just out of curiosity, would this happen if you changed MAC addresses on your box and the arp cache had the old MAC address? I run a script that changes my MAC address on every boot up and every six hours when up, for instance. billo On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 09/23/2010 04:14 PM, Bret Stern wrote: >> Ladies and gentlemen, >> >> >> Playing with Wireshark and seeing >> "Gratuitous ARP for 63.209.4.211 (Request)" >> coming from my Fedora 12 ftp server. >> >> The ip address is a bit of a mystery since this is a fresh install, and >> I couldn't find any nic card setup in the bios which could contain this >> number. Must be in the server somewhere. >> >> Who's gonna solve this one? Where can I look? > > There are a couple possibilities. If a machine has two NICs on the > same IP you'll get that message. The offender could be another physical NIC > or an alias of another NIC (e.g. "eth0:0"). > > Another possibility is that you have a bond running (two NICs set up as > either a failover pair or an aggregate). If the system fails over from > one NIC to the other one (or if it switches when load sharing), an ARP > may be sent--depending on the bond type. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting [email protected] - > - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - > - - > - "Microsoft is a cross between The Borg and the Ferengi. - > - Unfortunately they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to - > - do their programming." -- Simon Slavin - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > [email protected] > Subject: unsubscribe > _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: [email protected] Subject: unsubscribe