Curt Wilson wrote: > > I was doing some experimentation in my home lab > recently and came across something I thought was > interesting. I would enjoy any comments on this > potential issue, which may be known already but is a > new one for me. > > I was running a desktop with Win XP pro using a > static IP address. I booted up a laptop running Win98 > with a duplicate IP address; the duplicate IP address > message appeared on the 98 box and the 98 > interface was disabled. XP connectivitiy worked as > normal. (this is standard operation so far). I shut > down the win98 box. > > Next, I booted a RedHat 7.0 system using the same > static IP address. XP lost it's IP, showing 0.0.0.0, did > not display any message about this, and the Linux > box hummed away happily, receiving connections > destined for that IP. Perhaps the RH system > implements it's ARP/duplicate IP address check in a > different manner that is not recognized by XP, at least > in this particular instance. > > I did not test this with any other version of windows > but, having never tried this particular scenario, I was > wondering if this is normal operation? If this is of any > interest I'll grab a sniff of the traffic. You have a switch in your network. I got 10 linux boxes running kernel 2.4.12 with the same IP (clons). All of them was able to ping my router with 80-95% packet lost J
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