I have assigned IP addresses to the boxes on my home network, 192.168.1.11 thru 192.168.1.14. This arrangement has worked without problems until today. When I booted up the machine at 192.168.1.13, instead of the usual report of eth0 being activated I saw an error message: "Some other host already uses 192.168.1.13". I was unable to ping 192.168.1.13 from another machine. Box 192.168.1.13 remained unconnected to the LAN until I manually activated eth0 using system-config-network. Then everything worked normally. I rebooted another of the boxes 192.168.1.11 and got a similar message: "Some other host already uses 192.168.1.11". Again, activating eth0 solved the problem. What's happening? Is there an easy solution? If not, what can I do to troubleshoot this further? Thanks for the help! Jerry
