Glen Barber <glen.j.bar...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Yuri <y...@rawbw.com> wrote: > > I accidentally had two machines having the same wifi MAC > > address. Wifi router gave them both the same local IP address > > and they both could somewhat connect to the outside world, but > > connections were flaky. > > > > No messages about IP/MAC conflicts appeared in dmesg log. > > > > Vague memories from the long ago past remind me that Windows > > was issuing IP conflict messages in the local wired network. > > > > Why doesn't FreeBSD complain at leat about the IP conflict? > > The last time I made the mistake of having two devices with the > same IP, I saw ARP messages in /var/log/messages as well as the > system console. This was around 8.0-RC1, for what it's worth.
ARP will notice when two different MAC addresses both claim the same IP address, but to detect two different boxes both claiming the same MAC/IP address pair would require some other way of identifying the two boxes as different. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
