On Thursday 26 September 2002 14:27, Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 01:19 PM 9/26/02 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >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. > > I have not seen this behavior under Windows. But then, I can't recall > ever duplicating an IP address on a LAN I was managing (and I don't > have enough non-essential hosts running here to do proper tests > without disrupting the operation of the LAN). Could someone who has > seen it please describe it a bit more exactly?
I've had Linux boxes hijack M$ ip's before when attempting to set the Linux box to a free static ip w/o checking. I think that generally the last box to "request" the ip gets the information from the switch/hub IIRC. It's a real bugger to troubleshoot if you haven't run into it before. :0) -- ~Lynn Avants aka Guitarlynn guitarlynn at users.sourceforge.net http://leaf.sourceforge.net If linux isn't the answer, you've probably got the wrong question! ------------------------------------------------------- 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
