On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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= On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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= =it seems that RH 6.2 Linux doesn't complaint if there are 2 machines of
= the
= =same IP addess sitting in the same segment.
= =why is that so? (i have checked the /var/log/messages)
= =
= =I have installed Solaris and Windows before with the same scenerio but in
= =both cases I will know of any conflicting IP addresses during installation
=
= Having the same IP address for two different machines in some, albeit
= obscure, situations. So, yes, you can do this. But normally it isn't
= done.
=
= hth,
= kf
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= yes, but i don't want to do this...waht i want is that linux has the
= capability to detect conflict IP.
=
Get on each machine and run "ifconfig". This will provide the name of
each interface on that machine and information about it, part of which is
its IP address. Do this on each machine and, using this information,
create a database about your network. (If you have a large network, you
should have this anyway.) You'd think that there would be a script
already written which would do this, but I've never encountered one.
If ping is available, you could get some of this information easier by
doing a ping -c 1 [subnet-broadcast-address] and then analyse the
information you get back.
hth,
kf
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