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From: pauls@stimpy.us.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: what is this bsd/os 2.0 kernel error, and should i care?
Date: 30 Nov 1995 05:55:01 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
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What does this mean?

Nov 29 22:13:27 myhost kernel: arptnew failed on 98a001fe
Nov 29 22:33:28 myhost kernel: arptnew failed on 98a001fe
Nov 29 22:53:28 myhost kernel: arptnew failed on 98a001fe
Nov 29 23:13:28 myhost kernel: arptnew failed on 98a001fe
Nov 29 23:33:28 myhost kernel: arptnew failed on 98a001fe
Nov 29 23:53:28 myhost kernel: arptnew failed on 98a001fe
Nov 30 00:13:28 myhost kernel: arptnew failed on 98a001fe
Nov 30 00:33:27 myhost kernel: arptnew failed on 98a001fe

I'm assuming 98a001fe is a MAC address.

98a001fe isn't any of my local interfaces, and it's not any interface
in my arp cache.  Errors have been recurring, every twenty minutes,
as far back as the logs go.

Ideas?