Subject: arplookup: unable to enter address for ....
To: None <tech-net@NetBSD.ORG>
From: jan van doorn <jdoorn@nc.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 06/12/1998 09:35:40
Hi,

I am running NetBSD 1.3.1, and see a lot of these:

  arplookup: unable to enter address for cf581903

My address is 172.18.0.184, and cf581903 is 207.88.25.3, so it should
not be in the arp table. Every thing works fine though. Should I be
worried?

Additional info:

ding.nc.com> ifconfig -a
ep0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        address: 00:60:97:8e:fd:45
        media: 10baseT/UTP
        inet 172.18.0.184 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 172.18.255.255
lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 32976
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ppp1: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 296
sl1: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 296
strip0: flags=0<> mtu 1100
strip1: flags=0<> mtu 1100
tun0: flags=10<POINTOPOINT> mtu 1500
tun1: flags=10<POINTOPOINT> mtu 1500
eon0: flags=3<UP,BROADCAST> mtu 1500
ding.nc.com> netstat -rn
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use    Mtu  Interface
default            172.18.0.1         UGS         2    70302      -  ep0
127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          0    75514      -  lo0
172.18             link#1             UC          0        0      -  ep0
172.18.0.1         00:00:0c:7d:59:48  UHL         1        0      -  ep0
172.18.0.37        link#1             UHL         1        2      -  ep0
172.18.0.184       00:60:97:8e:fd:45  UHL         0     2644      -  lo0
172.18.0.239       link#1             UHL         1     1167      -  ep0
172.18.6.6         00:10:4b:88:59:72  UHL         0       20      -  ep0
172.18.100.1       00:00:c0:32:67:fd  UHL         0      116      -  ep0
172.18.100.26      00:00:e8:41:e8:36  UHL         3   322520      -  ep0
172.18.251.56      00:00:e8:34:a8:40  UHL         0        0      -  ep0
172.18.255.255     link#1             UHL         3     1334      -  ep0

XNS:
Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use    Mtu  Interface

ISO:
Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use    Mtu  Interface

X.25:
Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use    Mtu  Interface
ding.nc.com> traceroute 207.88.25.3
traceroute to 207.88.25.3 (207.88.25.3), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  cisco7513 (207.88.25.1)  1.571 ms  1.177 ms  1.144 ms
 2  mailhub (207.88.25.3)  1.056 ms  1.108 ms  1.002 ms
ding.nc.com> uname -a
NetBSD ding.nc.com 1.3.1 NetBSD 1.3.1 (DING) #0: Fri May 22 21:07:28 PDT 1998     root@ding.nc.com:/usr/src1.3.1/sys/arch/i386/compile/DING i386

Any help would be appriciated.

Jan.