Re: static ARP entry bug?

[Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 07:40:02AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> A.B.C.254      0a:0b:0c:0d:0e:0f  UHS         0        0      -  xennet0

I just checked route -rn noutput.

I reach the same stage as you: the IP/MAC exists in the routing table,
with flags UHS. However, it is not shown by arp -a, and sending a ping
to the machine fails with the unpleasant kernel messages:

arplookup: unable to enter address for 
  192.0.2.15@ff:01:d1:ca:c0:00:02:06:c0:00:02:0f:08:00:61:63 on null 
  (could not allocate llinfo)
arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo on xennet0 for 192.0.2.15
arplookup: unable to enter address for 
  192.0.2.15@ff:01:d1:c7:c0:00:02:06:c0:00:02:0f:08:00:43:a2 on null 
  (could not allocate llinfo)

netstat -rn shows:
192.0.2.15       00:16:3e:52:c1:ec  UHS         0        2      -  xennet0

And, for the sake of completness, I did arp -s 192.0.2.15 00:16:3e:52:c1:ec

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu%netbsd.org@localhost