martian source messages caused by F5 network devices with "Unicast Solicit" on

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Issue

  • Martian source messages messages being logged from 'F5 Networks, Inc.' MAC address (ie. MAC starts with: 00:01:D7)
kernel: martian source 10.XXX.XXX.7 from 254.XXX.XXX.203, on dev bond0
kernel: ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:01:d7:YY:YY:YY:##:##

kernel: martian source 10.XXX.XXX.7 from 254.XXX.XXX.11, on dev bond0
kernel: ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:01:d7:ZZ:ZZ:ZZ:##:##

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5

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