I've seen this as well in the past.
Best to my recollection is has something to do with the consumer gateway
routers. Or it had something to do with someones pc. I can't remember
the actual situation, but I seen a bunch of times.
One more reason why I like using the router built into the cpe and turn
those cheap gateway routers into bridges.
Scott Reed wrote:
Why should Windows refuse to accept an IP just because there is a
conflict on the network? As long as that machine has a unique address,
why should it care about the duplicate? Makes it hard to troubleshoot
the network when your troubleshooting machine won't get an address.
Scott Lambert wrote:
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 08:21:37AM -0800, Marlon K. Schafer (509)
982-2181 wrote:
Here's an example from yesterday. My new laptop is Vista (the old
one has a concrete floor induced broken screen). There is a device
somewhere on my network that is answering arp requests incorrectly.
No matter what IP addy I put on the Vista machine (or osx for that
matter) it shows an IP address conflict and resorts to a 169.x.x.x IP
addy.
Any OS other than osx or Vista (both MS products these days) works
just fine. So I have a brand new laptop that won't work here and I'm
gonna have to waste who knows how much time tracing down a device,
and spend money replacing it, that is otherwise working just fine.
As much as I dislike Windows, you can't really blame that issue on
Windows. You have to blame that one on the bogus hardware which is
breaking arp...
like Quicken these days. I'd pay MORE for a program that just
balanced my checkbook and gave me some nice reports. I'm sick and
tired of everyone trying to force services and other crap down my
throat.
http://moneydance.com/
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