http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=10682



--- Comment #2 from amaguire <alan.maguire at sun.com> 2009-08-17 16:49:43 UTC 
---
(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > Created an attachment (id=2428) [details] [details]
> > nwamd log
> > 
> > Recently we ran into an issue while testing, where we were getting an IP
> > address from the DHCP server that someone else had statically assigned to 
> > their
> > machine.
> > 
> > This cause the i/f to change state constantly due to the duplicated address
> > causing DHCP to drop it and look for another .
> > 
> > nwamd needs to detect this situation and handle it in a way that informs the
> > user of the problem so that they can reasonably seek admin action to resolve
> > it.
> > 
> > To me this would require that we communicate the duplicate address 
> > situation,
> > with information about the address that's causing it.
> 
> it'd probably make sense for us to look out for IFF_DUPLICATE in the interface
> flags, and if found in handling the interface state event in
> nwamd_ncu_handle_if_state_event(), move the IP NCU into "maintenance, 
> duplicate
> address detected".

this is easy to reproduce, just set a User-ncp ncu to use a static address
which is already in use on your network. We see the interface flag "DUPLICATE"
and the interface is down.

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