On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Nigel Taylor wrote:
> Folks,
> I was reading through our most recent OSPF related discussion
> and the most recent puzzle(by Howard) brings a couple of questions I
> had to the list.
>
> Now, coming from a system admin background one of the things I must
> note was the ability of the MS windows to immediately identify a
> machine with a duplicate IP address within the same network/subnet.
> The cool thing here is and maybe you guys can provide some guidance as
> to how exactly and what layers of the OSI model plays a part in
> identifying the duplicate.
no magic or network sorcery here. More than likely the MS Windows machine
simply sends out an ARP for its own address, to see if it gets a
response with a different mac address, if so, then it knows its a
duplicate.
>
> Nigel...
>
>
>
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Brian Feeny, CCNP, CCDP [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Network Administrator
ShreveNet Inc. (ASN 11881)
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