It depends on the kind of environment you have and how much control you
have - that is to say, do people who break the rules get in trouble or just
get their hands slapped? (or nothing....)
Anyway, DHCP will definitely fix this problem but only if users don't change
the IP configuration on their PCs from DHCP to static.
I once worked in an environment that consisted of 10 floors of "engineers".
We got IP conflicts all the time because people didn't want to go through
the process of asking for an address - especially if they thought they
needed it only for a little while to test something out. At the time we
were using static addressing which was handed out by a bootp server
Once we installed switches and HP Openview and implemented DHCP, we could
track down the offenders fairly quickly and then yank their connection (or
shut the port) and wait for the phone to ring. After awhile, the
"engineers" finally figured out that we could catch them and things cooled
down. Also, because the DHCP pools had enough addresses to handle temporary
requirements.
I haven't heard about the issue about greater ARP version. Usually whoever
has the address first wins and the second PC to attempt the address loses.
Usually an error is reported back on the second PC with the MAC address of
the PC that has the address already - which can be traced.
Good user policies that are enforced and DHCP should prevent IP conflict
problems.
Kevin Wigle
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hamid Ali Asgari"
To:
Sent: Saturday, 18 August, 2001 15:22
Subject: Avoiding IP conflicts in a MULTI-VLAN environment [7:16470]
> Hi group
>
> I am setting up a network with some NT4 servers, a Catalyst 2948 switch ,
> and a 7204 VXR router and some access servers. The network consists of 7
> VLANs, and all the servers and routers are on multi-VLAN or TRUNK
interfaces
> on the switch. The LAN consists of many computers with different operating
> systems such as UNIX, LINUX and Win2k. Lots of computers that will be
> connected to this LAN are laptops so I can't implement PORT SECURITY on
the
> Catalyst.
>
> The problem is that I want to prevent my clients to make IP Conflicts in
my
> network. Correct me if I am wrong, but someone had told me that when an IP
> conflict occurs , the computer with the greater ARP version wins (or
> something like that !), so the RED HAT 7.1 LINUX operating systems would
> take down my NT servers.
>
> Any ideas or soloutions how I could prevent these conflicts?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Hamid
>
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