I have the following listing in my Xserver system log. Can someone
tell me what is happening? These are not in my IP address space.
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Oct 25 10:13:12 physio1 kernel: arp: 169.254.78.156 moved from
00:50:0f:04:2c:81 to 00:0a:95:97:55:0c on en0
Oct 25 11:26:04 physio1 kernel: arp: 169.254.135.143 moved from
00:03:93:b3:df:da to 00:50:0f:04:2c:81 on en0
Oct 25 11:26:04 physio1 kernel: arp: 169.254.135.143 moved from
00:50:0f:04:2c:81 to 00:03:93:b3:df:da on en0
Oct 25 11:42:51 physio1 kernel: arp: 169.254.80.45 moved from
00:0a:95:c1:cf:6c to 00:50:0f:04:2c:81 on en0
Oct 25 11:42:51 physio1 kernel: arp: 169.254.80.45 moved from
00:50:0f:04:2c:81 to 00:0a:95:c1:cf:6c on en0
Oct 25 11:57:08 physio1 kernel: arp: 169.254.2.4 moved from
00:0a:95:ea:50:80 to 00:50:0f:04:2c:81 on en0
Oct 25 11:57:08 physio1 kernel: arp: 169.254.2.4 moved from
00:50:0f:04:2c:81 to 00:0a:95:ea:50:80 on en0
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Not knowing anything about your network, I'd say this looks
like you have a bunch of clients that initially come up with
self-assigned addresses (in the 169.254.x.x range), then
acquire a "real" address (probably via DHCP), leaving those
self-assigned addresses open for someone else to use. So a
machine comes up, grabs a self-assigned IP that another had
used earlier, and your system is telling you that the MAC
address associated with that IP in its ARP cache has changed.
I'd be curious why you apparently have so many machines using
self-assigned addresses. Maybe the response time of your DHCP
servers needs to be looked at?
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