Ok, I have a very odd network problem. It is PROBABLY something on my
system...
So, I installed the beta version of vmware a couple weeks ago. It created
a network interface so that windows 2000 could talk to the world.
Completely ignoring my requests that it use DHCP, it choose to try and use
the address of our gateway. Our sysadmin was not happy.
Anyway, even after I brought the interface down ('ifconfig vmnet8 down'),
the machine kept screwing with the network. So, I completely uninstalled
vmware. The problem of conflicting IPs seemed to go away. I also got a new
IP address.
So, every 10 minutes or so, I loose visability to the world. The weird
thing is, _sometimes_ I will only loose visiability to a certain machine
on our network.. I run two ping processes to two different machines, one
will stop responding, the other is fine. My office mate can ping both
machines without problem. Othertimes, everthing is unreachable (while my
office mate can see everything). These "outages" last between 45-60 sec.
Anyway, I think either vmware fucked my network stack and didn't unfuck it
when I uninstalled, or someone else is trying to use my new static IP.
I donno how to do the whole ARP thing to get the mac address of any would
be conflicting machines. How do I do this?
namaste,
Mark
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