begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 03:51:48PM -0700: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 03:32:31PM -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote: [snip] > > Lan, how many machines, total, are on the subnet? > > > > Usually 3, never more than 5.
And when you were experimenting with the problem, there were just 3, right? > > (And do an ifconfig -a on each machine to verify that it hasn't > > decided to use two or more ip addresses.) > > I have no idea how that would happen nor why it wouldn't screw up ping, > too. Strange Things Happen when you have two machines claiming the same IP. Last time I saw "inexplicable" errors, it was at the head office, and it turned out to be a dual-IP conflict. An old machine had an IP that was reused, and when it got powered on, it caused strange problems, but it was only powered on for a half-hour at a time... > But I can run it when I get home. > > Here's linus: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ /sbin/ifconfig -a > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:04:E1:7A:89 > inet addr:192.168.100.3 Bcast:192.168.100.255 [chop] > > Seems to me Linus has one address -- same one it's always had -- on eth0 > and one on lo. Looks pretty normal to me. Hm. What does "netstat -nr" look like on linus? -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
