Dear,
I believe that whenever u ping to any device , it's mac to ip address
mapping gets added to ur arp cache table. If there is any router/switch or
any other device comes in between it will return the response with that
device's mac address rather than actual device. In ur case that might be
happenning. Try giving # traceroute or # tracert command & verify the route
that it takes to reach to that device.
Hitesh
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raees Ahmed Shaikh [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 12:07 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Swithces !!!
>
> Dear Buddies,
>
>
> Have a question about switches if anybody can put some light on it,
>
> Can a switch advertise more than one mac address, for ip communication.
> In our network we observed the following.
>
> Pinging and checking the arp table resulted in different mac addresses
> from different segments. The same ip address was ping from two different
> segment and on checking the arp table we found that the mac address
> related to the ip is different to both segments.
>
> The inference I took out from the same is that whether two different
> interfaces on one pc/router/or networking component could share the same
> ip address.
>
> Please correct me if I am missing some thing.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Shaikh Raees Ahmed,
> Cisco Certified Network Associate,
> Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer,
> Systems & Network,
> IT Division.
>
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