In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> The only other similar problem I can think of is vmware related.
>
>There's also the possibility that they're thinking about DHCP. A
>number of admins can tell stories of the time someone was trying to
>set up a DHCP server for one of their interfaces, and they
>misconfigured it so that it served DHCP addresses on the external
>interface, thus breaking things.
Yes, that happened here at Cistron a couple of times. The master
SMB browser takeover or whatever it's called is also something
we've seen on the local LAN.
However, in all cases these were wrongly configured *windows* machines.
We've never had any trouble with any Linux clients on the network.
Mike.
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