Re: Bizarre arp problem with Linux Fedora 'Yarrow'

From: Cameron Kerr (cameron.kerr_at_paradise.net.nz)
Date: 03/08/04


Date: 8 Mar 2004 15:34:29 +1300

Robert Mitchell <robert.mitchell4@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Running ethereal showed that all the other RH and Win boxes (and my
> Linksys wireless gateway) BROADCAST their arp requests as expected, but
> the new box sent them directly (frame id = 04) to ethernet physical
> address 00:00:00:00:00:00. The response ( from the local LAN adapter I
> believe) was ICMP destination unreachable.

That is very wrong. Can you show us a tcpdump trace?

Also, what network driver are you using?

Does it have any module parameters (use modinfo -p <modulename>)

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