Subject: Help! Help! ARP! ARP!
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/15/1994 00:25:20
I'm having a tough time finding spare cycles to sit down and get my
NetBSD/SPARC IPC in front of my face fulltime, so first I'll ask this
question again before I dive in:

I know the network I'm on isn't mutant by any stretch of the imagination,
yet the kernel messages since my last bootup are absolutely peppered with
complaints from the ARP code:

... [last reboot] ...
Sep 12 22:37:47 netbsd4me savecore: no core dump
Sep 12 22:37:56 netbsd4me /netbsd: arp_rtrequest: bad gateway value
Sep 12 22:37:57 netbsd4me /netbsd: arp_rtrequest: bad gateway value<7>arp_rtrequest: bad gateway value<7>arp_rtrequest: bad gateway value
Sep 12 22:47:57 netbsd4me /netbsd: arptnew failed on 8095186d
Sep 13 00:32:45 netbsd4me /netbsd: arptnew failed on 8095180b
Sep 13 00:33:46 netbsd4me /netbsd: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo
Sep 13 00:33:52 netbsd4me /netbsd: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo
Sep 13 00:36:06 netbsd4me last message repeated 4 times
Sep 13 00:46:09 netbsd4me last message repeated 64 times
Sep 13 00:56:13 netbsd4me last message repeated 14 times
Sep 13 01:05:11 netbsd4me last message repeated 14 times
Sep 13 01:16:17 netbsd4me last message repeated 15 times
Sep 13 01:26:24 netbsd4me last message repeated 14 times
Sep 13 01:35:20 netbsd4me last message repeated 16 times
Sep 13 01:42:58 netbsd4me last message repeated 51 times
Sep 13 01:43:03 netbsd4me /netbsd: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo<7>arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo
Sep 13 01:43:08 netbsd4me /netbsd: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo
Sep 13 01:43:33 netbsd4me last message repeated 6 times
Sep 13 01:45:43 netbsd4me last message repeated 16 times
Sep 13 01:54:21 netbsd4me last message repeated 24 times
Sep 13 01:57:42 netbsd4me last message repeated 4 times
Sep 13 15:37:17 netbsd4me /netbsd: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo
Sep 13 15:37:39 netbsd4me last message repeated 5 times
Sep 13 17:40:28 netbsd4me /netbsd: arptnew failed on 8095180b
Sep 13 17:41:29 netbsd4me /netbsd: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo
Sep 13 17:41:35 netbsd4me /netbsd: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo
Sep 14 00:54:53 netbsd4me /netbsd: arptnew failed on 8095180b
Sep 14 00:55:54 netbsd4me /netbsd: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo
Sep 14 00:56:01 netbsd4me /netbsd: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo
Sep 14 00:57:09 netbsd4me last message repeated 2 times
Sep 14 01:08:20 netbsd4me last message repeated 18 times
Sep 14 01:09:27 netbsd4me last message repeated 2 times
Sep 14 08:53:33 netbsd4me /netbsd: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo
Sep 14 08:54:35 netbsd4me last message repeated 4 times
Sep 14 16:25:43 netbsd4me /netbsd: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo
Sep 14 16:26:03 netbsd4me last message repeated 7 times
Sep 14 21:29:33 netbsd4me /netbsd: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo
Sep 14 21:29:38 netbsd4me /netbsd: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo

I've stared at if_ether.c briefly, and can't figure out what's causing this
other than having this vague idea that maybe my ARP table's mangled.  But
"arp -a" and "netstat -r" both look peachy.  Any ideas?

Thanks,

	- Greg