Wednesday, April 01, 2026

Re: debian VM can't connect to network: arp error?

On Wed, Apr 01, 2026 at 04:08:14PM -0600, Luke Call wrote:
> I created a debian VM and vmctl starts it successfully (thanks to
> earlier threads on that topic!). At first, the network worked fine.
> Then I don't know what I did, but after restarting the VM,
> the network would not work (can't ping anything from inside it,
> nmap can't see the VM at all). Even recreating
> the VM image and starting that--no network. I noticed an error
> on the host, in /var/log/messages from around the time I started
> the failing VM:
>
> /bsd: arp: attempt to add entry for 100.64.1.3 on tap0 by [ipv6 address] on tap1
>
> ...repeated many times. But I don't know my way around arp or tap interfaces.
>
> Rebooting fixed it. But for next time, is there a better way for me to
> address this?
>
> Thanks much,
> Luke Call

Is vmm running on openbsd stable 7.8? If so, this was referenced in a
prior thread: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=177318987615261&w=2

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Stuart A. McKim, P.E.
Idaho Falls, ID

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