In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The only other similar problem I can think of is vmware related. > >There's also the possibility that they're thinking about DHCP. A >number of admins can tell stories of the time someone was trying to >set up a DHCP server for one of their interfaces, and they >misconfigured it so that it served DHCP addresses on the external >interface, thus breaking things.
Yes, that happened here at Cistron a couple of times. The master SMB browser takeover or whatever it's called is also something we've seen on the local LAN. However, in all cases these were wrongly configured *windows* machines. We've never had any trouble with any Linux clients on the network. Mike. -- "dselect has a user interface which scares small children" -- Theodore Tso, on debian-devel