On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 12:56 -0700, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > 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? Er, are you using dhcp? You might also check to see if the arp tables in your router have been flushed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Working with Linux is like wrestling with a worthy opponent. - - Working with Windows is like picking on an annoyed child with a - - loaded handgun. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
