my curiousity is howd he get duplicate mac addresses On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:02 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Glen Barber <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Yuri <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I accidentally had two machines having the same wifi MAC > > > address. Wifi router gave them both the same local IP address > > > and they both could somewhat connect to the outside world, but > > > connections were flaky. > > > > > > No messages about IP/MAC conflicts appeared in dmesg log. > > > > > > Vague memories from the long ago past remind me that Windows > > > was issuing IP conflict messages in the local wired network. > > > > > > Why doesn't FreeBSD complain at leat about the IP conflict? > > > > The last time I made the mistake of having two devices with the > > same IP, I saw ARP messages in /var/log/messages as well as the > > system console. This was around 8.0-RC1, for what it's worth. > > ARP will notice when two different MAC addresses both claim the same > IP address, but to detect two different boxes both claiming the same > MAC/IP address pair would require some other way of identifying the > two boxes as different. > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
