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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ethernet configuration problem
Date: 24 Apr 1996 22:37:23 GMT
Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden
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nagy@gypsy.topend.com.au (Robert Nagy) writes:

>lorikeet         link#1             UHLW        0       10 
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>The phantom link#1 seems to go away after a minute or two.
>
>Can anyone shed some light on what I am doing wrong?

This is a stale ``ARP'' attempt, but you forgot to mention to us
what ``lorikeet'' actually is an IP address.

Better report it again with the `-n' flag used, so we see IP addresses
instead of more or less bogus names.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)