On 26-Sep-02 sr wrote: > > This leads me to another question: Why is another machine able to steal the > IP address like that with Linux? Even Windoze prevents this from happening > and just gives you an annoying popup to let you know someone else just > connected with the same IP.
I also have noticed windows doing that, not really sure the exact mechanism they use, maybe looking at the ARP. Under Unix/Linux usually they trust that if somebody is setting up a static IP address, that person knows that it's available.. We have a group of IPs set aside for when we are setting up new machines, and on occasion we will run into the exact same thing happening to us, so we have to keep track of the card's ethernet address, in order to track down where on our network the offending machine is. During the time that both machines are active on the network, sometimes traffic will go to one machine and sometimes it will go to the other machine mostly random. > > Thanks especially to Ray Olszewski and Brad Fritz for their help! > > -sr > Bill Suetholz ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html