could it be you have two machines accidentally set up with the same IP - 
perhaps broken DHCP?
= I very much doubt this is the case.  Some are static, rest pfSense is doing 
the DHCP.  All devices on the LAN are functioning as 
expected.

if you've got managed switches, can you check their arp tables to see where 
those mac addresses live?
= unmanaged switches.  I have checked all the MAC addresses I can find on the 
LAN and local WAN, (pfSense makes this easy with the 
ARP and DHCP lease pages) put into spreadsheet and searched the errant ones 
for, none are found.  I suppose one could find the ARP 
range assigned to what manufacturer, but that sounds hard and non specific.

are you using vlans, and if so could you have accidentally joined them?
= Not sure, have got PPTP setup, but most of time it is unused.  Problem occurs 
when PPTP not operational.  Does that answer?

It was only implied, to be clear em0 is WAN, em1 is LAN.

I know others on the same cable network who are having similar problems.

Kind regards
David Hingston


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: [pfSense-discussion] ARP traffic causing routers to hang - ingle 
ARP cache with both LAN and WAN ARP entries?


Tortise wrote:
> kernel: arp: unknown hardware address format (0x0000)
> kernel: arp: unknown hardware address format (0xdd1f)
> kernel: arp: 192.168.0.7 is on em1 but got reply from 00:00:cd:1c:14:1a on em0
> kernel: arp: 192.168.0.7 is on em1 but got reply from 00:09:bf:55:71:b0 on em0


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