Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!TOPAZ.RUTGERS.EDU!hedrick From: hedrick@TOPAZ.RUTGERS.EDU (Charles Hedrick) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Ethernet problems induced by bogus ICMP Address Mask Reply Message-ID: <8708091202.AA20575@topaz.rutgers.edu> Date: Sun, 9-Aug-87 08:02:44 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.8708091202.AA20575 Posted: Sun Aug 9 08:02:44 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Aug-87 21:45:14 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 6 I believe your ARP request for 0.0.60.216 is used during the boot sequence, at a point when the Suns don't know their Internet address. They seem to use their serial number as an address. You'll also find such addressing in the routing tables in certain versions of SunOS. I suggest that you take 60 * 256 + 216, and see if you don't have a Sun with that serial number.