Re: Can't Ping the gateway

[Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 06:06:41AM -0700, Edward Addo-Dankwa wrote:
> Thanks guys for all the help.  It was a problem of
> conflict of IPs.  A colleague had configured another
> machine with the same IP as this and I was not aware. 
> The problem was solved when I gave the machine a new
> IP.  I however do not understand why the machine did
> not tell me it was conflicting with another. Any explanations?

Its software might not be looking this problem. However you might have
another machine which will notice. For example, if you have a FreeBSD
machine on the network, it logs any ARP inconsistencies it sees into
/var/log/messages:

May 19 09:16:18 web1 /kernel: arp: 192.168.0.30 moved from 00:01:02:06:4f:66 to 00:50:04:46:1a:9c on xl0
May 19 09:31:59 web1 /kernel: arp: 192.168.0.30 moved from 00:50:04:46:1a:9c to 00:01:02:06:4f:66 on xl0

Regards,

Brian.

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