On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Yuri <[email protected]> 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. -- Glen Barber _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
