On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 12:56 -0700, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > > 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. > Further information: (1) I don't use DHCP to assign IP addresses on the LAN (2) On my machines dual booting FC6 and XP (where the XP boxes use a different range of IP addresses) Windows isn't having this problem. (3) I update my linux systems regularly.