In article <200201140212.g0E2C3CV019812@backfire.WH8.TU-Dresden.De> you wrote: > The majority of the arp requests is fine: > 03:08:07.626268 arp who-has 141.30.225.1 tell 141.30.225.254 > 03:08:07.626712 arp reply 141.30.225.1 is-at 0:60:5c:5e:82:d1 > just some show this behaviour. > Does it make a difference if I've set up with the old (ifconfig, route) tools? > BTW: The route for eth2 was set up by ifconfig. It should not make a difference as long as you do not use rules. I think in your situation, the router is asking the ARP request because an application/socket bound to the wrong address tries to contact a host in your upper network. Therefore the auto binding of the local address will not take place. Have a look at the "netstat -tupe" output, right after the arp request. You will see most likely a established TCP connection or UDP request. You can also tcpdump for them. Greetings Bernd - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
