On 1/30/2009 2:38 PM, Tom Duerbusch wrote:
In the old days, when a Windows box came online with a duplicate IP address,
the entire network would suffer.
I don't think that's been true for quite a while now, at least for
Ethernet. When Windows (and Linux on the Intel platform, based on my
observation) brings up a LAN adapter, one of the first packets to go out
on the network is an arp query for the system's own IP address. If the
system gets a response, it knows that some _other_ system on the LAN
already has that IP address.
I don't know what z/Linux does, but I'm assuming something similar takes
place.
Eric
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