Subject: Re: IPv4 link-local address and noisy logs
To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
List: tech-net
Date: 08/20/2003 23:08:47
On Jan 7,  5:37pm, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
}
} 	when IPv4 DHCP address pool is full, MacOS X/WinXP machine would use
} 	IPv4 link-local address (169.254.0.0/16).  if such a node is present
} 	on normal subnet, the following log would appear on machines that are
} 	using non link-local address.
} 
} arplookup: unable to enter address for 169.254.101.211@00:03:93:c3:a7:e0 on aue0 (host is not on local network)

     Why would a machine be trying to do this?  What would cause it to
want to add that address to its ARP table?

}-- End of excerpt from Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino