Hal Burgiss wrote:
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 09:34:03AM +0530, bindal wrote:In RH 7.2, when a PC is configured with an IP Address on a LAN and
that IP is already configured on another machine, then the new
machines grabs the IP from the old machine and causes the
malfunctioning of the old PC with the same IP..
This way anyone can bring down our server on our LAN ??
I would think only root could do this.
And there is no way to know if there is an IP conflict ??Any solutions to this problem ??
How are the IPs being assigned in the place? DHCP? Randomly chosen by
users? There has to be some mechanism. The mechanism should not allow
this.
