topic Orphan packets in Wireless https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/orphan-packets/m-p/1122743#M187765 <P>We are seeing a large quantity of orphan packet messages in our syslogs:</P><P>%APF-1-CHANGE_ORPHAN_PKT_IP: apf_foreignap.c:1285 Changing orphan packet IP address for station...</P><P></P><P>These messages come in sets of 4-5 where the mac address is the same and the IP address is cycling among several of our subnets and a private IP subnet or two. Has anyone else run into this? What is the explanation for this and how do we find the root cause?</P><P></P><P></P> Sat, 03 Jul 2021 23:25:16 GMT BarronHulver 2021-07-03T23:25:16Z Orphan packets https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/orphan-packets/m-p/1122743#M187765 <P>We are seeing a large quantity of orphan packet messages in our syslogs:</P><P>%APF-1-CHANGE_ORPHAN_PKT_IP: apf_foreignap.c:1285 Changing orphan packet IP address for station...</P><P></P><P>These messages come in sets of 4-5 where the mac address is the same and the IP address is cycling among several of our subnets and a private IP subnet or two. Has anyone else run into this? What is the explanation for this and how do we find the root cause?</P><P></P><P></P> Sat, 03 Jul 2021 23:25:16 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/orphan-packets/m-p/1122743#M187765 BarronHulver 2021-07-03T23:25:16Z Re: Orphan packets https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/orphan-packets/m-p/1122744#M187766 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I don't know if this will help, but here is a link from Cisco.... basically it say's to open up a TAC case:</P><P></P><P><A class="jive-link-custom" href="http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/message/guide/msgs2.html" target="_blank">http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/message/guide/msgs2.html</A></P><P></P><P>Search for %APF-1-CHANGE_ORPHAN_PKT_IP</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:02:41 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/orphan-packets/m-p/1122744#M187766 Scott Fella 2008-09-05T01:02:41Z