Tim wrote about accidental duplicate use of an IP: >> I've seen it happen, and I can postulate several reasons why it might >> have worked: >> >> The other machine wasn't on the network when you set your IP. >> A firewall on the other machine might have broken this feature. >> You've brought a pre-configured machine to a network. Jeff Vian replied: > All of those conditions could allow a second machine to get set up > with the same IP. However, as soon as both machines were active on > the network communications to/from them would break because the arp > responses would confuse all others trying to communicate (switches, > routers, bridges, and hosts alike). Oh I don't deny that. I've already said that duplicate IPs on a network will cause problems. Bad enough that there's no point listing them, it'll break networking left, right, and centre; it just shouldn't be done. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
