Do you tried arpwatch? Or Languard Network Scanner from www.gfi.com

Robert

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> Gesendet: Samstag, 7. Dezember 2002 01:07
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> Betreff: IP conflict and mac
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> I recently came upon a situation with one of my clients where his Active
> Directory Controller would show an IP conflict error message every few
> seconds...
> All the workstations machines had DHCP whose range was nowhere near the
> server's ip and all the other server and routers etc. had different
> static ips...
> The server system log showed the MAC address of the machine that was
> trying to claim the IP but I didn't find any way to find it on the lan...
> I tried several MAC address scanners and the arp -a command (in case
> anything was registered there) but nothing came up...
> It turned out it was an old hub some stupid admin had decided to put
> back online but it was pure chance we found that out...
>
> The question remains... sort of checking all mac addresses by hand is
> there an easy way to locate a machine simply by it's mac and nothing else?
>
> Thanx for your time... :-)
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