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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!fjholden.OntheNet.com.au!not-for-mail From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Turning of annoying "Unknown packer"-messages Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:41:57 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 25 Message-ID: <335C1765.4CA8@OntheNet.com.au> References: <5javq4$gsd$1@news1.xs4all.nl> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: Vincent Ossewaarde <vincento@knoware.nl> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39502 Vincent Ossewaarde wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a problem with my freebsd-systems. I have hooked up a Cisco > 2500 which has an ethernet-interface with three IP-addresses (1 > 'normal', 2 aliased). > > On my FreeBSD-boxes I keep receiving messages like "Unknown packet > from unknown router xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx". In fact that isn't such a Have you got the "Cisco Discovery Protocol" running? I think it might be enabled by default! You can turn it off via "no cdp" > problem (my monitor doesn't complain displaying them), but my > /var/log/messages is getting huge. > > How can I turn them off? Anyone dealt with this before? You can control there syslog puts things via /etc/syslog.conf. If you don't want to see these messages, don't log them or else send them off to /dev/null ! > > Vincent