On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Christian wrote:
> Happy New Year Pluggers!
>
> Any of you network savy geeks encountered a duplicate ping reply?
> When I ping 192.168.0.21 from my machine, I get ping replies with a
> "duplicate" word at the end. Why does this happen? Is this bad for the
> network?
>
Yes, it's a Bad Thing(tm). It means two or more hosts in your network
have been assigned the IP address 192.168.0.21 for some reason, and that
can cause problems for your network. Every packet destined for one
machine with a duplicate also gets sent to the duplicate machine. Two
people surfing on the machines with duplicate IP's will notice that their
surfing is unnaturally slow, because every page destined for one machine
also gets sent to the other ones, and all machines waste time discarding
packets they didn't ask for.
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